On 4/12/2011 4:09 PM, Igor Chudov wrote:
> I used Linux since 1995. I do not personally see the point of having /usr
> mounted separately.
>
> Igor
Igor:

Some of us came to Linux with prior experience using Unix. To quote a 
footnote from the Wikipedia article on the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 
for Linux,

"Historically and strictly according to the standard, /usr/local/ is for 
data that must be stored on the local host (as opposed to /usr/, which 
may be mounted across a network)"

Most of my Unix boxes at NIST shared a multitude of directories like 
/usr/ via nfs.

I believe in the principle of "least surprise". If "Linux is not Unix" 
then it should say explicitly how it isn't.

Regards,
Kent


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