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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:23:15 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems)
Message-ID:  <p05101000b83c43924ee8@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20011212090610.D67986@monorchid.lemis.com>
References:  <20011210124458.B63585@monorchid.lemis.com> <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> <200112110946.fBB9kMM26143@harmony.village.org> <20011212090610.D67986@monorchid.lemis.com>

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At 9:06 AM +1030 12/12/01, Greg Lehey wrote:
>On Tuesday, 11 Dec 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
>  > 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...
>
>That's pretty seldom.
>
>  $ find /usr/share/man/cat* -type f | wc -l
>     3277

In the land of weird suggestions, just how weird would it be to
suggest that we create some way for 'cat' versions of man pages
to land somewhere else?

Maybe /var/man/usr/share/cat*
for ones from /usr/share/man/man*
etc?

I'm not suggesting this, of course.  I'm just asking how weird it would
be if someone *were* to suggest it...  Or is there any other way to get
the same effect?  (I don't think this makes much difference for the
question of corrupted partitions, but I just like the idea of trying to
get it so /usr is written to less often.  I've sometimes thought I should
try this with a bunch of symlinks, but that gets messy given all the
different sources for man pages)

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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