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From: cgd@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD: /bin -> /usr/bin reorganization
Date: 26 Nov 92 17:39:01
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: awesley@neumann.une.edu.au's message of 25 Nov 92 23:37:35 GMT
In article <awesley.722734655@neumann.une.edu.au> awesley@neumann.une.edu.au (Anthony Wesley) writes:
>Then why does the default installation set it up this way? I wondered that
>after installing the system and not being asked about filesystems/disk cache
>etc. I know that with a bit of work the system can be changed to accommodate
>these things, but I haven't done that yet (been too busy playing with it!).
Why? because Bill and Lynne decided to do some things to cater to
"dos-dorks" who didn't know better. (another example: the fact that
under 0.1, the serial ports were numbered "com1" and "com2"...and that broke
a bunch of things...)
One of the first things i did when i got 0.1 was post a "how to install
it the right way" sheet...
Top N reasons to do "correct" partitioning:
(1) you modify /usr; to keep changing things in / can be
dangerous.
(2) the larger the partition, the longer to fsck.
(3) easier to set up client/server... (you can export /usr
RO... why do you think the "people upstairs" created /var?)
(4) possible bonuses for locality of reference...
i think (1) is by far the most important... it's a filesystem safety thing.
Chris
(wearing my "yet another goddamned elitist sysad" hat... 8-)
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"Sometimes it is better to have twenty million instructions by
Friday than twenty million instructions per second." -- Wes Clark