Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:44:58 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Marko Zec <zec@tel.fer.hr>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <20011210124458.B63585@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3C141A26.9D8BC688@mindspring.com> References: <20011208102658.B11428@dragon.nuxi.com> <200112082050.fB8Ko1T01347@mass.dis.org> <20011209164606.C83634@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011209104437.A69671@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <3C141A26.9D8BC688@mindspring.com>
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On Sunday, 9 December 2001 at 18:12:54 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > I think we are all forgetting that the reason Sun introduced /usr /var? > in the first place was to permit / to be NFS mounted as a result > of a network boot, and shared -- therefore, read-only. Well, I'm not forgetting this, I didn't know it. But it seems to make sense. This was one of the things I mentioned earlier. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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