For 5.2-CURRENT, I think we should revisit this issue with one of the
following conclusions winning out, and the rest being discarded as
flame-bait:
(1) Combine / and /usr into a single file system by default, and add /usr/local/etc/rc.d to the search order, with appropriate hacks to handle old-style scripts. The devil will be in the bikeshed, but the implementation is easy, except for the bit where we explain that NFS-mounted /usr/local won't work too well.
I would like to show support for this option. I've been running /usr on the / partition on *all* my FBSD machines for the past 4 years. The reasons for having a separate / and /usr just don't apply today. Disks are large enough to hold both, and UFS(FFS) is stable.
Sun and SGI both combine / and /usr on their pre-installed workstation machines.
That abandons the ability to have a read-only /usr.
Richard Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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