On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:52:52AM -0600, Rick Troth wrote: > On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, David Boyes wrote: > > Much as I dislike Solaris, their diskless workstation filesystem layout > > is a pretty good model for this. We should use that as a model for > > ideas. > > They also demonstrated the first shared /usr implementation. > They also do something I call "folding" (for lack of terminology) > of /bin and /lib into /usr which works nicely for Linux (with care). > There is a lot we can learn from Sun.
This "folding", as far as I know, is just a couple of symlinks, from /bin to /usr/bin and from /lib to /usr/lib. Doing the same thing on a typical Linux system would be problematic, since generally /bin and /lib are expected to be present on the root filesystem (mount, for example, is typically in /bin). -- - mdz
