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On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Grant Taylor <gtaylor@××××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> IMHO that makes the name of the "/etc" directory all that much more |
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> entertaining. As in Dennis R. and Ken T. couldn't be bothered to come up |
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> with more directory names than they had, e.g. /bin /lib /boot /var … (I |
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> can't be bothered to think of or look for more.) |
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Along those lines the original reason for the / vs /usr split was that |
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the original developers were accommodating a machine that had two hard |
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drives and needed to split things up. |
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There may very well be good reasons to preserve the distinction today, |
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but those aren't actually historical. And of course there are two |
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modern approaches: |
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1. The more traditional FHS approach of / for boot-essential and /usr |
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mounted later during bootstrapping. |
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2. The Fedora /usr merge approach of sticking all read-only |
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distro-supplied files in /usr with the goal that they be contained and |
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read-only (think squashfs/signatures/etc), with bootstrapping covered |
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by the initramfs. |
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Rich |
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