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RE[3]: why not / instead of /usr
by phoenix on Tue 31st Jan 2012 17:59 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: why not / instead of /usr"
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"It would make more sense to move everything from /usr to /, then the other direction.

The idea is that you can snapshot /usr seperately from /var, /etc, /boot, etc.

If /boot, /var, /home, and /usr are separate filesystems, then it means that / is also a separate filesystem. Why would snapshotting one filesystem be easier than snapshotting another filesystem? And why wouldn't you want to snapshot the application configuration files along with the applications (meaning, /etc along with apps under /)?

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