Re: Solving the syslogd problem

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:33:22AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 09:21:23PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> > To fix this, I suggest that we split syslogd into syslogd and syslogd-network.
> 
> We could also do a much simpler and more radical decision and stop
> splitting / and /usr. Of all the partitioning choices available, it
> truely seems to be a pointless legacy from extremely constrained
> hardware with a significant cost to maintain.

However, we still support a lot of this hardware and often there is no
easy upgrade path.

I did three installations last year using that split. One of them was
an amd64 machine and the size restrictions came from a limited
selection of boot devices and other OSes occupying parts of the disk
already (with no easy way to move things around arbitrarily).

Martin