[Recipient list trimmed down to just the list. dhw]
>Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 19:38:32 +0100
>From: Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>....
>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.
It's hardly impossible for both to be mountpoints. :-}
>/var is traditionally a mountpoint to keep the logs out of harms
>way (and vice versa), but /usr never had that level of justification.
>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.
Somehow, I'm getting a feeling of deja vu [sorry about the loss of
diacritical marks], reflecting on SunOS (both 4.x & 5.x), where /bin is
a symlink to /usr/bin, and /lib is a symlink to /usr/lib.
All of which reminds me of a singularly memorable time when I came in to
(then-)work, where I had my (personal) Sun 3/60 in use as my workstation,
and found that it had re-booted, but failed to switch to multi-user
mode.
Shortening this story, it turns out that /etc/fstab was no longer
present. And it had been so long since I had paid any attention to the
filesystems, I didn't know what the name of the partition for /usr was.
And this was the only SunOS 4.x box in the shop.
So... I didn't have access to such user-level programs as "ls", for
example.
Shell built-ins, especially "echo", along with redirection (to fabricate
a skeleton /etc/fstab enough to get boot-strapped) saved the day... and
I learned a little. :-}
Cheers,
david
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