Getting rid of /usr for F12?

[Ralf Corsepius]

Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Fri, 17.04.09 18:16, Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) wrote:
> 
>> Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> said:
>>> Mounting /etc read-only makes no sense at all, config files are designed to
>>> be writable.
>> Now, if initrd could handle /etc being on a separate filesystem, that
>> would be cool.  I might would leave /usr on / (mounted ro) if that were
>> the case (although that wouldn't help with the case I recently had where
>> /usr was corrupted but I still booted "emergency" mode to restore from
>> tape).
> 
> It doesn't make sense to have /etc/ a seperate parition from /.

It does. Files below /etc carry machine-dependent configuration info.

=> Sharing /etc between several machines will only work if all machines 
are very similar (almost identical).

Ralf