Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:30:28 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <20011211173028.H232@gohan.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011212001610.9AEA739EA@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 04:16:10PM -0800 References: <20011211234433.B697@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20011212001610.9AEA739EA@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 04:16:10PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Nik Clayton wrote: > > > > --gj572EiMnwbLXET9 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:23:15PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > In the land of weird suggestions, just how weird would it be to > > > suggest that we create some way for 'cat' versions of man pages > > > to land somewhere else? > > >=20 > > > Maybe /var/man/usr/share/cat* > > > for ones from /usr/share/man/man* > > > etc? > > > > Sounds like a good idea. > > I for one would like it a lot. 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? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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