The reason that there's a distinction between root and usr bits is
that Solaris (at least at one point) supported booting off of a small
local disk (containing just /), and remote mounting /usr.
I remember those days very well; the 2.x PROM (wasn't even OpenBoot PROM back
then)
couldn't
I remember those days very well; the 2.x PROM (wasn't even OpenBoot PROM back
then)
couldn't handle / slices greater than 1GB, so if you stuck a 9GB disk inside
of an IPX or an
SS1+, you were forced to split / and /usr.
Pwow, I feel old now.
Nah, in the old days a disk was 35MB or perhaps
casper@sun.com wrote:
I remember those days very well; the 2.x PROM (wasn't even OpenBoot PROM back
then)
couldn't handle / slices greater than 1GB, so if you stuck a 9GB disk inside of
an IPX or an
SS1+, you were forced to split / and /usr.
Pwow, I feel old now.
Nah, in the old
I notice that packages seem to come in three basic
flavors: Usr, Root, and Kernel.
Can someone explain what the precise differences are?
I assume that Usr is a userland package, Root
requires root privileges, and Kernel is a kernel
module. But I want to confirm that.
It's about
UNIX admin writes:
The r is the root portion of this component, payload which goes into /
(usually /etc/, which is in the / filesystem).
Then there is the u portion of the component, which goes into the /usr
filesystem.
Finally there is the kr portion of the component, which usually
