Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 21:09:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <200112120509.fBC59Qk07926@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> of "Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:40:37 MST." <200112112240.fBBMebM31038@harmony.village.org>
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> > However, the argument for /usr is more than just that it is for crash > recovery. It is? Sounds like there are lots of retconned reasons that could equally easily be worked around. 8) > I'd have fewer if /usr was mounted read only (which it > can't be for the man page issue, and other problems). For manpages, we should be using /var/man/catman. I'm not sure what other problems you're referring to; perhaps enumerating them would help? > The argument is that if / is small, the chances of it being corrupt > are smaller and the risk is lower of using it as an unchecked file > system. The counter-argument is that making it "small" doesn't help it much, wheras making it "passive" (readonly) would. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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