David O'Brien wrote: >>For 5.2-CURRENT, I think we should revisit this issue with one of the >>following conclusions winning out, and the rest being discarded as >>flame-bait: >> >>(1) Combine / and /usr into a single file system by default, and add >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d to the search order, with appropriate hacks to >> handle old-style scripts. The devil will be in the bikeshed, but the >> implementation is easy, except for the bit where we explain that >> NFS-mounted /usr/local won't work too well. > > > I would like to show support for this option. I've been running /usr on > the / partition on *all* my FBSD machines for the past 4 years. The > reasons for having a separate / and /usr just don't apply today. Disks > are large enough to hold both, and UFS(FFS) is stable. > > Sun and SGI both combine / and /usr on their pre-installed workstation > machines. That abandons the ability to have a read-only /usr. Richard Coleman richardcoleman_at_mindspring.comReceived on Sun Nov 30 2003 - 20:11:21 UTC
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