From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 15:45:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from postfix1.free.fr (postfix1.free.fr [212.27.32.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D5815125 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:45:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from usebsd@free.fr) Received: from safi (paris11-nas2-42-160.dial.proxad.net [212.27.42.160]) by postfix1.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id BFA0C28B3C; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 00:43:04 +0100 (MET) From: "BSDman" To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" , "Matthew Dillon" Cc: "Ben Rosengart" , "Bill Fumerola" , "Louis A. Mamakos" , Subject: RE: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 00:50:10 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <5915.945196712@critter.freebsd.dk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote > It would make more sense, considering the way FreeBSD is distributed for > /usr/local to be a mountpoint than for /usr to be a mountpoint. > > /var is traditionally a mountpoint to keep the logs out of harms > way (and vice versa), but /usr never had that level of justification. > one idea about /usr is to allow the admin to mount it read-only. I didn't tried it but this would give some level of security against modifications of the files there in. > It is getting even less justifiable as time progress. The last > sensible argument we had for it was the "load the filesystem from > the first 1024 cylinders or bust" problem. I think the "cylinder" limitation is still of concern. If all OSes come with large root paritions, installing many of them on the same host would be a nightmare. Regards, mouss Free your Net with BSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message