From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 713FD1381F3 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 05:11:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AB8FE0AC4; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 05:11:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ve0-f171.google.com (mail-ve0-f171.google.com [209.85.128.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1F28FE0AB2 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 05:11:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f171.google.com with SMTP id pa12so4827596veb.16 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:11:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=5CGsHfllncmSW9Nwm/7M3aFW7kmlRue6vvkNOAanWTg=; b=Y1XLs6GM777EzlCzcTfz70YMbLmeKlSdKm3Beh1HrIfFsssDGKO1AsUOUT/D//KDjr HOIw7SiNkmNjPkua84K2IgkRymORX3puMEpf3csvpTfi4rElqZguoIwf/GHRAHAtG9xu q5A1vNO00xryWAu1vBA5JPRWII07pwFcA9yJ09/Mgx3UOMTuxBYXAlNVO57HNkNLcDmF xIDDHzEvOk9/ZaIw5p97VzC+TL1SQ5AAH3IrocLB3rpaUJDZ7S0dQvwokJ2kJuplsm+1 KJwvycNm2ltj4R2h6buYPA63cNZw/Vg3kfWDHeL3JpQGXS/Wb7z/qTbdx1ikQ4PAYjCX PB/g== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.220.145.132 with SMTP id d4mr25965159vcv.9.1380604305159; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.98.196 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:11:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <524A076B.7070501@gentoo.org> References: <5246079E.7090406@gmail.com> <524761B4.60805@gmail.com> <20130929052937.GA30380@waltdnes.org> <201309290925.06893.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <5247E4C2.5040502@gmail.com> <52480720.7070704@googlemail.com> <52480902.9040305@gmail.com> <52481602.6020305@googlemail.com> <52484363.7020309@gmail.com> <52484F5F.5090408@googlemail.com> <5248581F.7060902@gentoo.org> <5248AE0A.5070603@googlemail.com> <524A076B.7070501@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 13:11:45 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim From: Mark David Dumlao To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 350fd61e-8c83-4e8e-98d5-b00086306776 X-Archives-Hash: d016e674b08798ce9a95d1a959afe92c On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: >>> Ohh and BTW, /usr was not just added because someone added a harddrive, >>> in most cases it was used to allow machines contain a very small system >>> on / which was enough to just boot and mount a networked system (/usr) >>> containing most of the software. This allowed for cheaper deployment of >>> machines since the hard drive could be smaller as it wouldn't need to >>> have all the data locally. Yeah, if this sounds familiar is because this >>> was later moved to initramfs. >> no, network'ed file systems came a lot later. >> Initially /usr was added because one harddisk was full. Really, that is >> the whole reason for its (broken) existance. > Please provide some reference about "Initially /usr was added because > one harddisk was full." without it your statement is moot to me. > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html -- This email is: [ ] actionable [x] fyi [ ] social Response needed: [ ] yes [x] up to you [ ] no Time-sensitive: [ ] immediate [ ] soon [x] none