Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:17:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: 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: <20011212131734.B82733@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <p05101000b83c43924ee8@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20011210124458.B63585@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011208102658.B11428@dragon.nuxi.com> <200112082050.fB8Ko1T01347@mass.dis.org> <20011209164606.C83634@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011209104437.A69671@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <3C141A26.9D8BC688@mindspring.com> <200112110946.fBB9kMM26143@harmony.village.org> <20011212090610.D67986@monorchid.lemis.com> <p05101000b83c43924ee8@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Tuesday, 11 December 2001 at 18:23:15 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:06 AM +1030 12/12/01, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 11 Dec 2001, Warner Losh wrote: >>> I suspect, however, that we'll find that crash recovery really is a >>> big factor since /usr does get written to on every man command that >>> generates a new man page... >> >> That's pretty seldom. >> >> $ find /usr/share/man/cat* -type f | wc -l >> 3277 > > 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? > > Maybe /var/man/usr/share/cat* > for ones from /usr/share/man/man* This seems to make a lot of sense. If we could find a way to make a / file system (including /usr) read only, this would be a great advantage. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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