Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:07:31 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "BSDman" <usebsd@free.fr> Cc: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, "Ben Rosengart" <ben@skunk.org>, "Bill Fumerola" <billf@chc-chimes.com>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RE: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) Message-ID: <199912150507.VAA26239@apollo.backplane.com> References: <NDBBJDFPGLMLFHLNEEOMKEHPDCAA.usebsd@free.fr>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
:
: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 tend to make /usr a separate mount point for one reason and one
reason only: So root (/) can be made a small partition (64-128M) and
thus be less likely to get corrupted beyond repair in a crash.
-Matt
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199912150507.VAA26239>