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From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems)
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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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