From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:27:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <165D3734-0D92-43B9-9D71-62690AB7BB5E@bsdimp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFCBnZvMuUvZNm72pvWkS30PH7o3eS8ii2WQ5XaZyviAxhwHOA@mail.gmail.com>
Well, except for the part that it stopped making sense before Linux was invented... the split also allows minimal ram disk images to load the rest of the OS and mount the full system remotely... These were still useful after 1990 when Linux was first released. It wasn't until around 1995 or so that disks were big/cheap enough for it to not matter...
Warner
On Jan 31, 2012, at 12:16 PM, A. P. Garcia wrote:
> http://www.osnews.com/story/25556/Understanding_the_bin_sbin_usr_bin_usr_sbin_Split
> _______________________________________________
> TUHS mailing list
> TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org
> https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20120131/ecc6c47a/attachment.html>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-31 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-31 19:16 A. P. Garcia
2012-01-31 19:27 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2012-02-01 11:12 ` Jose R. Valverde
2012-02-01 17:35 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 13:32 ` Random832
2012-02-02 17:24 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 17:36 ` John Cowan
2012-02-02 18:10 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 21:14 ` Dave Horsfall
2012-02-02 21:49 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 22:29 ` Tim Newsham
2012-02-02 22:47 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 22:59 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-02 23:33 ` Warner Losh
2012-03-13 16:09 ` [TUHS] ASR 37 teletype desired by LCM / Vulcan.com John Foust
2012-02-02 22:53 ` [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-02 23:35 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-03 11:10 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-02-03 15:22 ` Jose R. Valverde
2012-02-03 16:06 ` Ronald Natalie
2012-02-03 16:09 ` Steve Nickolas
2012-02-02 17:40 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 18:02 ` Tim Newsham
2012-02-02 13:45 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-02-01 9:26 arnold
2012-02-02 13:35 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-02-02 13:49 ` Larry McVoy
2012-02-02 23:16 Norman Wilson
2012-02-02 23:37 ` Carl Lowenstein
2012-02-02 23:58 ` John Cowan
2012-02-04 19:34 Pepe
2012-02-04 21:05 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-05 8:38 Hendrik Jan Thomassen
2012-02-05 10:13 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2012-02-05 17:15 ` Warner Losh
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=165D3734-0D92-43B9-9D71-62690AB7BB5E@bsdimp.com \
--to=imp@bsdimp.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).