Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes )

[Wilko Bulte]

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 07:38:32PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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.

-- 
Wilko Bulte             Arnhem, The Netherlands   - The FreeBSD Project 
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