From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 470 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2021 00:00:21 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 30 Jan 2021 00:00:21 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 1FC8F9C87C; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 10:00:17 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 415CD9C778; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 09:59:57 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key; unprotected) header.d=eschatologist.net header.i=@eschatologist.net header.b="JykEYAiI"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 4C9DE9C772; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 09:59:56 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 567 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 09:59:55 AEST Received: from quail.birch.relay.mailchannels.net (quail.birch.relay.mailchannels.net [23.83.209.151]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 788EC9C6CF for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 09:59:55 +1000 (AEST) X-Sender-Id: dreamhost|x-authsender|cmhanson@eschatologist.net Received: from relay.mailchannels.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay.mailchannels.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E6683427C1; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 23:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pdx1-sub0-mail-a97.g.dreamhost.com (100-96-17-21.trex.outbound.svc.cluster.local [100.96.17.21]) (Authenticated sender: dreamhost) by relay.mailchannels.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4A093342021; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 23:50:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender-Id: dreamhost|x-authsender|cmhanson@eschatologist.net Received: from pdx1-sub0-mail-a97.g.dreamhost.com (pop.dreamhost.com [64.90.62.162]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384) by 100.96.17.21 (trex/6.0.2); Fri, 29 Jan 2021 23:50:27 +0000 X-MC-Relay: Neutral X-MailChannels-SenderId: dreamhost|x-authsender|cmhanson@eschatologist.net X-MailChannels-Auth-Id: dreamhost X-Cooperative-Madly: 1dc27179350a0e77_1611964227086_1536064481 X-MC-Loop-Signature: 1611964227086:112100716 X-MC-Ingress-Time: 1611964227086 Received: from pdx1-sub0-mail-a97.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pdx1-sub0-mail-a97.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67887F56B; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:50:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=eschatologist.net; h= content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; s= eschatologist.net; bh=DHipFU8T84MI1GK3B73cPE82PaQ=; b=JykEYAiIaG YMDJBGWyli18k6sNQVl/fKt04tKubJJwvrMUSXTrW7oyot/UCazwWAPo77jFg/61 Q4u0XR+2eXTmyYFDWcL2wvLVPPKqkrgbVlG9EPjwAZN20ZsA0IAL9Gbk/L0JqGYt RFy7me5ZYMVKZ9vrGwhWpmZzAEP4+AzOo= Received: from [10.0.1.205] (c-76-126-113-109.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [76.126.113.109]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: cmhanson@eschatologist.net) by pdx1-sub0-mail-a97.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 031F97F12B; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:50:24 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 14.0 \(3654.60.0.2.21\)) X-DH-BACKEND: pdx1-sub0-mail-a97 From: Chris Hanson In-Reply-To: <202007211822.06LIMBJ4018831@freefriends.org> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:50:23 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <40DAE471-0FDF-4891-8E66-817E1B7059C7@eschatologist.net> References: <862d8a34-456d-33c1-7ef0-58c6e8089de9@tnetconsulting.net> <202007211822.06LIMBJ4018831@freefriends.org> To: arnold@skeeve.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3654.60.0.2.21) Subject: Re: [TUHS] /bin vs /sbin X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Jul 21, 2020, at 11:22 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote: >=20 > This is also when /var came into being for log files and such; > again - it was per machine space, so it lived either on a small disk > in the workstation or on a per-client chunk of space on the server > if the client was totally diskless. And then NeXT went a little further, making /etc, /var, and /tmp = symlinks to entries in /private, so each netbooted system only needed = two main mount points: / could be read-only, served from any number of servers for = load-balancing, and shared among all systems running NEXTSTEP (even = across architectures, thanks to multi-arch binaries). /private could be per-machine and could come from a server near that = machine to manage load. It meant your admins just needed the MAC address of a new system (to = create the NetInfo /machines entry for it) and it would be immediately = usable on the network. All of our NeXT-derived operating systems still follow this filesystem = layout, though only a tiny number (relatively speaking) are netbooted = these days. (I don't even remember whether netboot is supported any = more=E2=80=A6) -- Chris