On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

# On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 04:18:06AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
# > [...]
# > Now please get a grip on reality and stop living in a time warp!
# > 
# > /usr hasn't "belonged" on a separate disk ever since home directories
# > were moved out of it, or since decently priced disks got bigger than
# > 10MB (yes, megabytes), whichever came first.  The proper definition of a
# > root filesystem is that it be *stable*, not small -- it doesn't have to
# > fit on a single disk cylinder you know!
# 
# Hey, some of us still do have small disks and a nfs-mounted /usr !!

The benefit of separate / and /usr is that / by itself fscks in a
considerably smaller amount of time.

DON'T FORCE IT, Greg!

# Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>

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