From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 9 18:13: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B1137B416; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:12:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0370.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.115] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16DFvz-0005Gy-00; Sun, 09 Dec 2001 18:12:48 -0800 Message-ID: <3C141A26.9D8BC688@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 18:12:54 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: Greg Lehey , Mike Smith , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Marko Zec , "Louis A. Mamakos" , Matthew Dillon , Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) References: <20011208102658.B11428@dragon.nuxi.com> <200112082050.fB8Ko1T01347@mass.dis.org> <20011209164606.C83634@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011209104437.A69671@clan.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think we are all forgetting that the reason Sun introduced /usr in the first place was to permit / to be NFS mounted as a result of a network boot, and shared -- therefore, read-only. Sun had several configurations: o Fully NFS o Fully local o NFS everything but swap ("dataless") o NFS everyuthing but swap and user data ("workstation") -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message