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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:26:01 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems)
Message-ID:  <20011213102601.D76019@monorchid.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200112122117.fBCLHhM38741@harmony.village.org>
References:  <20011211173028.H232@gohan.cjclark.org> <20011211234433.B697@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20011212001610.9AEA739EA@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200112122117.fBCLHhM38741@harmony.village.org>

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On Wednesday, 12 December 2001 at 14:17:43 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <20011211173028.H232@gohan.cjclark.org> "Crist J. Clark" writes:
>> 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?
>
> Well, if installworld did a catman phase...

I've seen a system which does this.  I think it was Inactive.  It's
certainly a reasonable option, maybe even worth being the default.

Greg
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