> » > The merged directory /usr, containing almost the entire vendor-supplied > operating system resources, offers us a number of new features regarding > OS snapshotting and options for enterprise environments for network > sharing or running multiple guests on one host. Most of this is much > harder to accomplish, or even impossible, with the current arbitrary > split of tools across multiple directories. > > With all vendor-supplied OS resources in a single directory /usr they > may be shared atomically, snapshots of them become atomic, and the file > system may be made read-only as a single unit. > « hmmm, I think I've brought this up before and forgotten the response, something along the lines of they are not static anymore anyway. They are atleast majoratively on OpenBSD. I believe /bin, /sbin aka the root, etc. traditionally contained static binaries so you would have a highly reliable working core system with just say a 50 Mb / partition that you could easily hack and restore and rarely remount for example. I welcome the read-only root though and I haven't looked and forget some of the complexities at play. -- ________________________________________________________ Why not do something good every day and install BOINC. ________________________________________________________
