From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Dec 12 15:56:12 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 158AD37B416 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:56:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C3B6A786E3; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:26:01 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:26:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Warner Losh Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <20011213102601.D76019@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011211173028.H232@gohan.cjclark.org> <20011211234433.B697@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20011212001610.9AEA739EA@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200112122117.fBCLHhM38741@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200112122117.fBCLHhM38741@harmony.village.org> 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 Wednesday, 12 December 2001 at 14:17:43 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20011211173028.H232@gohan.cjclark.org> "Crist J. Clark" writes: >> Nothing in man(1) actually breaks if you just make /usr read-only. You >> won't get cached pages, but in this day of overpowered CPUs, who >> cares? OTOH, in these days of super-cheap HHD, who needs markup pages >> except for the developers? > > Well, if installworld did a catman phase... I've seen a system which does this. I think it was Inactive. It's certainly a reasonable option, maybe even worth being the default. 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