Le Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 08:40:15PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson a écrit : > https://css.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2014/papers/plan9.pdf > > > Of course, these advantages have become impossible now with the > > merging of directories > > No. Not impossible. One simply has to overcome inertia and the > nostalgia that many leading lights in the Linux community have for 1980s > Unix systems. > > As I understand it, the division of root and /usr file systems > originates in the capacity limits of disk packs for the DEC PDP-11 and > VAX-11 series of computers. It's of a piece with the 640kB RAM limit > afflicting the IBM PC architecture. > > In other words, nonsense that should be discarded with great force at > the first opporunity, which arrived decades ago.
You could say the same about any single feature of UNIX remaining in Debian... Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
