Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 16:32:48 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: /: file system is full Message-ID: <19970909163248.43041@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199709090659.XAA18299@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>; from Satoshi Asami on Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 11:59:37PM -0700 References: <19970909085107.25727@lemis.com> <199709090659.XAA18299@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 11:59:37PM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> * The other alternative is, of course, to recommend a 45 MB root slice.
> * There's nothing so holy about /compat that it *should* be in the root
> * slice, but I don't like gratuituous symlinks either. I'm copying
>
> IIRC, someone mentioned that /compat might be needed at startup before
> mounting anything, and that is the reason why it is in /.
Sure, that's the classical reason for putting something in /. But I
can't see that we're going to need Linux programs before /usr is
mounted.
> OTOH, this question seems to come up quite often and is quite a thorn
> on our collective sides. I would love to see it moved to
> ${PREFIX}/compat (where I suspect it lives on most people's machines
> anyway) if that is only a case of vast minority.
The worst problem I could see with that would be the transition. I'm
copying -hackers; what do you guys think?
(Ducks until Jordan's answer has died down :-)
Greg
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