Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
> The reason a split "/" and "/usr" is *stupid* is fairly simple; there
> are precious few scenarios which you can recover without /usr.
I've tried to do this before, on an x86 machine which had a hardware
failure so we moved the disk to another machine, but the device paths
changed so only / could mount. It would have been very nice to have
a shell with builtins for the commands from /usr/bin working - while
"echo *" works for ls, it's not the same.
Having learned from that, I rarely make /usr a separate partition anymore,
though I also have the advantage of not having as high a security burden
as when I was setting up internet-exposed machines and making /usr read-only
for a small bit of protection against script kiddies with canned exploits
that tried to write there.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
