[systemd-devel] [PATCH] readahead: read /usr files last for rotational media, skip /var

[Kay Sievers]

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 13:09, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no> wrote:
> ]] Kay Sievers
>
> | > Actually I see a contradiction: if /lib is going to become /usr/lib,
> | > there's no reason to hard code /usr paths in systemd.  Just use /lib
> | > until the day comes.  But it's irrelevant.
> |
> | Nah, it's not needed in the rootfs, hence we already put it where the
> | rest will move to. And sure, we will change all paths in systemd to be
> | prefixed with /usr and not to rely on the existence of the compat
> | symlinks.
>
> Well, unless you break the ELF ABI, /lib and /lib64 won't go away.  I
> wish we'd just drop /usr as Paolo suggests.  Your comment about /include
> isn't really true, we'd move that somewhere sensible like /lib.

The point is not to have 6-10 top-level dirs for the system to manage,
but only a single one. We need a single point to snapshot or share.

Kay