From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 1 01:19:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA20537 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 01:19:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from pdx1.world.net (pdx1.world.net [192.243.32.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA20532 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 01:19:09 -0800 (PST) From: proff@suburbia.net Received: from suburbia.net (suburbia.net [203.4.184.1]) by pdx1.world.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA23918 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 01:21:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1648 invoked by uid 110); 1 Apr 1997 09:18:34 -0000 Message-ID: <19970401091834.1646.qmail@suburbia.net> Subject: file system layout In-Reply-To: from Doug Rabson at "Apr 1, 97 09:56:55 am" To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 19:18:33 +1000 (EST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Wouldn't it be useful to have /var/local as well as /usr/local. Machine > unique stuff like ssh keys etc. can go in /var/local and shared stuff can > go in /usr/local. > > -- > Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com > Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 The whole file system layout is not effective. Each package should have it's own tree. Configuration modifications should be done using unionfs. This allows you to store installed packages on write-protected media and union over them for any changes. The same goes for the entire base system. -- Prof. Julian Assange |If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people |together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks proff@iq.org |and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu |immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery