Re: Separate /usr partition

On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 13:18 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Different file systems are optimized for different things. Some of
them,
for example, do better at holding large sparse files. So, "efficiency"
has several possible interpretations.


That may be true but that has nothing to do with having the sub-file
trees of / in different partitions. If you want that kind of efficiency
just have you whole / partition optimized for sparse files.
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