From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 1ca40adb for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:36:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 8CC40A1DE9; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 01:36:48 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50BEC9E99B; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 01:36:40 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key; unprotected) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b=neDXrS3s; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B67CC9E99B; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 01:36:39 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-pg1-f176.google.com (mail-pg1-f176.google.com [209.85.215.176]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 575419E998 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 01:36:39 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-pg1-f176.google.com with SMTP id t70-v6so2215953pgd.12 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:36:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=sDfc7w6WvOYaWcVoja4GmzqhvFeBpX0D8pOOJ3Fk9M4=; b=neDXrS3sF8hs4WJjrQKlbztq6HCrZcChM/uK5PtH3Wt7ma1ZQG0IszT8DL7w2fLRm8 ieL68f1Na+aeJWKEkANF9RAKs2pKmaZHujaAoya4thIPmWIvcLe26Dw85Oj9iI9s26D1 e6d5Pku9yQlpzf+TZjjOqAbCh+FJWgPOxfqO6HtCY4PFGkEuGKO/tfKDhwVhkaLZkw/z 2w4X9XfdboUUA5XcD0O+Ku0xtLR+ECkWvLvRZrZ6M7hIHQF2/JLPjZP4lUM/+aeOvtUH jwx8O7C7HQ/YCIeX6eHpB+mfnmStfxzoOn/w78DzjFXgHjoezB/ixBUqKkQjQwWV+8W9 z8ug== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=sDfc7w6WvOYaWcVoja4GmzqhvFeBpX0D8pOOJ3Fk9M4=; b=T4w0wdtiI9YPfZ6uw4oc8do4G4PrRPD+Ws97r3ErP4F1Zbu+nxCR/ZQ16EHSeXczlx g5JJ1vpaB0HyDBPYdhX7M5Ov98e1m9gabfe+rl4aMycQclRygyX0keT5cjxWcobzFg8m BOoR6QvZIQ6/74DwozJAfMfp1D/V97I8Ser83vnMo2sYhrU/tc0wAnLvWIYo+gY91YT0 epxaxt6gg6yyjTDFRw2L8jaUgVhE7jyUZYlaK4DVgpC9En4qBTLhisJvuodC5aqI65iM tA3ujrbg7dpSTaebHiRSIjBNOc0QTBwF0h5EH3pEO83Lgmbz9d3QHaQFtRKWMP5YZtGC 5SFg== X-Gm-Message-State: ABuFfohH0Li4UsSHup5eWBz3tTyQoInggS3ycHVvVoAV4ku14fwrHw/v 01sNxVwtahXechj3mXeEbFFv1Obm X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACcGV60zELe8Es1u31m5ewx8aTNhZfas7QOFO80G66Cum69r7jIsXJYchGTlv0hk6zApto3JEA9kMQ== X-Received: by 2002:a62:4b14:: with SMTP id y20-v6mr12098972pfa.93.1538062598222; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:36:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.234] ([76.77.189.226]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c88-v6sm4952075pfe.132.2018.09.27.08.36.37 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:36:37 -0700 (PDT) To: Arrigo Triulzi References: <20180927120854.u8rei%ca6c@bitmessage.ch> <633187202.18875.1538053129435.JavaMail.tomcat@india-live-be04> <36C6F216-490E-4DE4-B5EF-CED26899542F@alchemistowl.org> From: Jon Forrest Message-ID: <4caca587-4945-c8be-5a35-c9f0ecfdd08b@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:36:35 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36C6F216-490E-4DE4-B5EF-CED26899542F@alchemistowl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] The origin of /home X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 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 Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On 9/27/2018 7:28 AM, Arrigo Triulzi wrote: > Not to be pedantic but the OSF/1 “dataless” trick is from 1993 in Jon > Forrest’s writeup: Right, and I am that Jon Forrest > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.unix.osf.osf1/-s1xW80zXPE/OGENDhH2Sc0J > > As one of the three people figuring out what DEC had told us was > impossible I’m pretty sure we were the first - our DEC 3000/400s with > OSF/1 T1.0 did not have enough disk space so we struggled to get our > network operational serving /usr and /home from the “big” DEC > 3000/600 which had two disks (one of which was /home). It's been a while, but what I remember is that DEC actually published their own method for doing this but it was surprisingly cumbersome. What I described was incredibly simple but effective. I ran many Alphas this way with no problems at all. Jon