On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Mark David Dumlao <madum...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >> > > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html
Bell Labs notes on Unix. Search for "usr" and you'll notice it was originally for home directories. http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/notes.html -- This email is: [ ] actionable [x] fyi [ ] social Response needed: [ ] yes [x] up to you [ ] no Time-sensitive: [ ] immediate [ ] soon [x] none
