From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 21: 7:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BFEE1508C for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:07:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA26239; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:07:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:07:31 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199912150507.VAA26239@apollo.backplane.com> To: "BSDman" Cc: "Poul-Henning Kamp" , "Ben Rosengart" , "Bill Fumerola" , "Louis A. Mamakos" , Subject: Re: RE: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :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