From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Dec 13 7:17:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from green.bikeshed.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 213FB37B416; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 07:17:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by green.bikeshed.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBDFHZC78678; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:17:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from green@green.bikeshed.org) Message-Id: <200112131517.fBDFHZC78678@green.bikeshed.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Joe Abley Cc: Greg Lehey , Warner Losh , 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) In-Reply-To: Message from Joe Abley of "Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:35:20 EST." <20011213093519.G34121@buffoon.automagic.org> From: "Brian F. Feldman" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:17:35 -0500 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 Joe Abley wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:26:01AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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. > > OpenBSD does this. The only manual pages that are installed in > /usr/share/man are pre-formatted catman pages. /usr/share/man/man* > exist, but are empty. So of course, when the end-user wants to zcat /usr/share/man/manx/y.x.gz | groff -Tps -mdoc | lpr, they happily install the source tree to be able to do this? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message