On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) <klond...@gentoo.org> 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. >
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