From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 9:34:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6AC037BE82 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 09:34:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nimrodm@bezeqint.net) Received: from bsd.net.il (bzq-173-99.bezeqint.net) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0FZ100BZ89V4HG@mail.bezeqint.net> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:30:41 +0300 (IDT) Received: (from nimrodm@localhost) by bsd.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA60963 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 09 Aug 2000 19:27:56 +0300 (IDT envelope-from nimrodm) Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 19:27:56 +0300 From: Nimrod Mesika Subject: Re: unix filesystem structure In-reply-to: <20000808202239.A21332@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 08:22:39PM +0100 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: nimrodm@email.com Message-id: <20000809192756.A60561@localhost.bsd.net.il> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i References: <20000808202239.A21332@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 08:22:39PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > is there any advantage to the unix filesystem structure, keeping all > binaries together, all docs together, all config files together, etc, rather > than the modern method of keeping all the parts of a given application > together? > One reason is to let you keep read-only files (i.e., binaries) and read-write files (configuration files, data, etc.) in separate filesystems. For example, Unix systems are usually designed so that you could mount /usr read-only or place /tmp /var on a fast r/w disk. -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message