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On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera |
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> (klondike) <klondike@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> Ohh and BTW, /usr was not just added because someone added a harddrive, |
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>>>> in most cases it was used to allow machines contain a very small system |
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>>>> on / which was enough to just boot and mount a networked system (/usr) |
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>>>> containing most of the software. This allowed for cheaper deployment of |
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>>>> machines since the hard drive could be smaller as it wouldn't need to |
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>>>> have all the data locally. Yeah, if this sounds familiar is because this |
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>>>> was later moved to initramfs. |
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>>> no, network'ed file systems came a lot later. |
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>>> Initially /usr was added because one harddisk was full. Really, that is |
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>>> the whole reason for its (broken) existance. |
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>> Please provide some reference about "Initially /usr was added because |
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>> one harddisk was full." without it your statement is moot to me. |
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> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html |
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Bell Labs notes on Unix. Search for "usr" and you'll notice it was originally |
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for home directories. |
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http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/notes.html |
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