[PATCH] remove usage of g_assert() in blockdev

[Doug Goldstein]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 09:10 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> ...What you're essentially proposing is Microsoft here. It's
>> shiny Vista. Why not make HAL display a boot splash which totally
>> obscures the console.
> 
> I don't think you need to be childish...
> 
>>> Either way, having / and /usr on separate file systems doesn't really
>>> make sense in this millennium I think. As such, moving HAL out of /usr
>>> does not make any sense to me. I think we simply just want to advise
>>> distributors that / and /usr needs to be on the same file system. 
>> It makes plenty of sense to lots of people and it shows your utter lack
>> of experience with any real world Linux & UNIX systems. This is one of
>> the most dumbfounding statements you've made on this list and is causing
>> lots of people to be worried about the direction of HAL development and
>> hopes to drop it from their systems.
> 
> Then please provide your knowledge and input to help us, rather than
> just ranting. Thanks.
> 

I've seen many setups where /usr is NFS mounted because there's a room
of workstations and you want to deploy an application and keep all your
workstations at the same level and have one server deploy the apps. I
know that my University does this exactly how I described. They use SuSE
for this.

In fact I've seen RHEL do this. You have a RHEL Server Edition or
whatever they call it that has all the apps on it and your RHEL
Workstations mount /usr remotely.

Also I've seen people putting /usr on a ro partition that gets mounted
with the rest of the fstab's for security purposes.

Those are just two quick examples.

Either way, it's an artificial limitation on the operating system, which
seems silly to me.

-- 
Doug Goldstein <cardoe at gentoo.org>
http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/

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