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The case for the /usr merge

Posted Jan 27, 2012 23:36 UTC (Fri) by slashdot (guest, #22014)
Parent article: The case for the /usr merge

Wow, finally!

This is one of the things that one immediately notices as being idiotic when he starts learning about Unix.

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Posted Jan 30, 2012 12:18 UTC (Mon) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463) [Link]

Idiotic?

You didn't think about NFS, read-only /usr and so on. Granted, nobody uses these anymore, BUT that is the reason the setup is like this.

The case for the /usr merge

Posted Feb 2, 2012 14:28 UTC (Thu) by rleigh (subscriber, #14622) [Link]

These /were/ reasons for the existence of /usr. But nowadays we can mount / read-only (including /usr), and we can also NFS mount / (including /usr), making the need for a separate /usr mount redundant.

Regards,
Roger