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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
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