From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The origin of /home
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:31:08 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180927143108.C05D418C08E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Jon Forrest
> Another reason why the home directory part of /usr was made into /home
> is because after doing so, it was possible to mount /usr read-only, and
> supply it from a server.
The real issue is that /usr contained stuff which wasn't true 'user data' -
e.g. /usr/bin. The reasons for that must have seemed good at the time it
started, but it was IMO a mistake. (Disgression about partitions, physical
packs, etc elided for now.)
Noel
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2018-09-27 14:31 Noel Chiappa [this message]
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2018-10-10 15:26 Noel Chiappa
2018-10-10 15:45 ` Clem Cole
2018-10-10 15:48 ` David
2018-10-13 6:58 ` Michael Kjörling
2018-10-12 0:15 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-10-10 14:43 Norman Wilson
2018-10-10 16:26 ` arnold
2018-10-11 19:10 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-10-10 17:08 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-10-11 0:22 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-10-11 2:33 ` David Arnold
2018-09-28 2:39 Doug McIlroy
2018-09-27 23:14 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-28 5:27 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-09-27 15:33 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-27 20:15 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-27 12:08 Cág
2018-09-27 12:30 ` Alec Muffett
2018-09-27 12:58 ` Donald ODona
2018-09-27 13:54 ` John P. Linderman
2018-09-27 14:09 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-09-27 14:18 ` Jon Forrest
2018-09-27 14:28 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-09-27 15:36 ` Jon Forrest
2018-09-27 15:54 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-09-27 18:49 ` Jon Forrest
2018-09-28 0:50 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-10-01 1:52 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-10-10 2:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-10-10 3:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-27 17:33 ` Donald ODona
2018-09-27 14:47 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-27 17:20 ` arnold
2018-09-27 20:42 ` Cág
2018-09-27 21:07 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-27 22:04 ` Clem Cole
2018-09-27 22:18 ` Henry Bent
2018-09-28 8:33 ` Tony Finch
2018-09-28 18:23 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-09-28 16:02 ` Nemo
2018-09-28 16:15 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-28 17:28 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-09-28 19:38 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-28 19:47 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-28 20:30 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-09-28 20:00 ` Nemo
2018-09-28 21:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
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