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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem! [was newsitem: unmasking udev-181]
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:34:52
Message-Id: pan.2012.03.15.06.33.47@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem! [was newsitem: unmasking udev-181] by Kent Fredric
1 Kent Fredric posted on Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:10:53 +1300 as excerpted:
2
3 > On 15 March 2012 07:48, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
4 >> It does, especially when it's literally the case, including a /usr/etc
5 >> bind-mounted on a tmpfs-based rootfs, that by login time, all that's
6 >> visible of rootfs is mountpoints, nothing else, and /usr literally IS
7 >> the "unified system resource" filesystem.
8 >
9 > Considering this pretty much eliminates using / for anything useful,
10 > we might as well rename "/usr" "/c"
11 >
12 > Even if it /is/ just to confuse the windows crowd =)
13
14 LOL! I've been off of MS over a decade now, and simply don't think of
15 them that much any more. I had no clue what you were referencing...
16 until I read that last line. You rather confused me! =:^)
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20 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
21 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman