From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 2 17:17:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D1F37B405; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 17:17:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0252.cvx25-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.216.252] helo=peter3.wemm.org) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16AhjA-0002ub-00; Sun, 02 Dec 2001 17:17:02 -0800 Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fB31GsO01927; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 17:16:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01CE13808; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 17:16:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Mark Murray Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, "Brian F. Feldman" , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling Softupdates in default install on -CURRENT In-Reply-To: <200112022320.fB2NKK040498@grimreaper.grondar.org> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 17:16:53 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011203011654.01CE13808@overcee.netplex.com.au> 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 Mark Murray wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:18:51PM +0000, Mark Murray wrote: > > > Me, I null-mount /usr/tmp onto /tmp. Works a charm :-) (Of course, > > > /usr is mounted with SU.) > > > > That is nice. But what does that have to add to this discussion? > > Are you suggesting we do that by default from sysinstall? > > (note /usr/tmp isn't even a standard directory) > > My point is that null-mounting is a valid and working alternative. > /usr/tmp can easily be made into a standard directory. No it cannot. The whole point of the /usr and /var split was to keep /usr a stable, mostly unchanging file system. All of the dynamic activity is over in /var, which you can afford to trash during a crash. I've done this before: (single user login) # mkdir -p /var/tmp # rm -rf /tmp # ln -s /var/tmp /tmp .. That provides a directory even when /var isn't mounted. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message