Re: TAKE - userspace

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 22:12 21-7-2001 +0200, Juergen Hasch wrote:
> Am Freitag, 20. Juli 2001 10:26 schrieb Nathan Scott:
> > Important change for xfsdump and xfsrestore (and libraries that they
> > rely on)... we're now consistent with other backup/restore utilities
> > which need be available when only the root filesystem is mounted.
>
> What is the reason for putting libacl.a in /lib instead of leaving it in
> /usr/lib where it belongs IMHO ?
> This breaks all applications that try to link libacl.a at compiletime like
> Samba and Fileutils. Please move it back.

NO!

If you only have your root filesystem, how would you then be able to run 
xfsdump or xfsrestore.
let's see.

You have a seriuous crash of your system and the /usr filesystem is lost.
This means that you need to restore the /usr filesystem.
Now comes the fun part, you run xfsrestore to get your /usr filesystem back 
but onfortunately you can't run xfs_repair to repair the fs or run 
xfsrestore to restore your backup.

Now that would be stupid. Your system needs these utility's for minimal 
operation so they belong on /

Check your utils for your ext2fs dump restore e2fscheck and others.
Heck even chmod and co is sitting on the / fs.

It's a pity that we need to move the lib because the rest of the 
"important" utils need to be on the root fs.

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.