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To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) 
Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>,
	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>,
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	Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:44:58 +1030."
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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 02:46:22 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20011210124458.B63585@monorchid.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes:
: 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.

I have had systems that have separate / and /usr, and others that have
one big /.  I don't mind so much that / and /usr are on the same
partition by default, but I don't want to see us go to one big '/'.
That does cause more problems than it solves (and makes it impossible
to do fastish boots by kicking the fsck into the back ground).
However, I've had occasion to have systems where / and /usr need to be
separate partitions, so as long as we don't require them to be on the
same partition, I'd say go for it.

I suspect, however, that we'll find that crash recovery really is a
big factor since /usr does get written to on every man command that
generates a new man page...

Warner

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