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

[BSDman]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote
> 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.
>

one idea about /usr is to allow the admin to mount it read-only.
I didn't tried it but this would give some level of security against
modifications
of the files there in.

> It is getting even less justifiable as time progress.  The last
> sensible argument we had for it was the "load the filesystem from
> the first 1024 cylinders or bust" problem.

I think the "cylinder" limitation is still of concern. If all OSes come
with large root paritions, installing many of them on the same host would be
a nightmare.


Regards,

mouss

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