"dbus in single-user mode?" alias "/usr over bluetooth?"

[Bill Nottingham]

Alan Cox (alan at redhat.com) said: 
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:13:51PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > Its defined in the LSB, its a long tradition and its very useful.
> > 
> > Separate /usr is different from local / and network /usr. One is fairly
> > useful, one is becoming more and more pointless over time.
> 
> Actually I would say the reverse. The imaginative are finding it very
> very useful because you can fit the rest of the system on flash and the /usr
> partition over the network either by NFS or GFS2.
> 
> That is *very* useful as it gives you local storage, local CPU and no rotating
> noise generators.

What's the usage case for local storage that makes this preferable over
just a network boot?

Bill