On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:25:28PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Thomas Sippel - Dau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote: > > > > The BIG problem with additional directories in / is that they need > > planning for at every installation or upgrade, and will invariably > > trip up administrators when the root disk fills up because somebody > > has wanted an additional entry and starts stuffing data into it. > > As noted above, /usr is a link to / on GNU/Hurd, and the plan is to > use a shadowfs/unionfs to solve the problem of "filling up /" (this is > not the only problem they solve, but this is one of them).
Note also that the working interpretation among the participants in the discussion of a GNU/Hurd annex some months back was that any FHS stipulation that a file or directory be found in a certain place can be satisfied even if the file is "really" someplace else. So, for example, directories such as /usr/share and /usr/src are furnished by having /share and /src, and /usr pointing to . in the root directory (independent of whether /share and /src reside on a root disk). -- Richard Kreuter _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
