On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 02:21:13PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > OK, when tiny disk drives cost $10,000 and had to come from the same > > vendor as the CPU, and you couldn't boot from anything else there was a > > reason to have /bin and maybe /sbin separate. But that was in some > > other century. > > Go back that far and you are talking about bin versus usr. > > Historically bin was on the fast fixed head disk and usr/bin on the moving > head disk. > By the time I got to Unix on a Vax750.. /bin was on our first 40 MB washing machine, /usr was on our second 40MB washing machine, and /usr/local was on our third one... and you hoped that nobody set up reads and writes to get them to pull apart. > sbin is a SunOS era invention that exists essentially because they didn't > have a nice mechanism to boot a box and recover it if you broke the shared > libraries (and they were quite fragile) > Putting /usr on a seperate partition in 4.0 kills kittens... [and I think the same with 3] -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
