From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Dec 11 18:47:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9A3437B416 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:47:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 11F70786E3; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:17:35 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:17:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Warner Losh , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <20011212131734.B82733@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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 11 December 2001 at 18:23:15 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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* This seems to make a lot of sense. If we could find a way to make a / file system (including /usr) read only, this would be a great advantage. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message