Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 20:09:14 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) Message-ID: <19991214200914.E1003@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <5915.945196712@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 07:38:32PM %2B0100 References: <199912141832.KAA22638@apollo.backplane.com> <5915.945196712@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 07:38:32PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <199912141832.KAA22638@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes:
> >
> > I think at one time or another all of us have missed *something* in
> > /usr that wasn't in /. For example, disklabel -e doesn't work without
> > vi -- which is in /usr.
>
> EDITOR=/bin/ed
> export EDITOR
> disklabel -e
>
> > But if we go down that path we are going to wind up with *every* binary
> > in /usr being moved to /, which is clearly wrong.
>
> Dogmatically, yes. Sensibly: I'm not so sure.
>
> 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.
It just has an historical justification. When /usr was another RK05
pack/drive.
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