Re: /etc getting bigger
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On Sunday 15 July 2001 12:05 pm, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> You are missing the point of union mounts.
> Storing "general tools and maintenance stuff" separately
> from "applications", and activating them in order, is
> orthogonal from names used to refer to them.
We were not talking about union mounts. Are they implemented in linux?
Mounts may indicate subsystems in a unix-like system. [That's my opinion
though.] But names do have meanings, and a file's path is in relation to the
type of a file.
So if you put in / the GNU subsystem and in /usr user applications it makes a
*lot* of sense. My suggestion was to refine the GNU subsystem so that it is a
self-contained little system. That's how I maintain my systems and I've seen
benefits in doing so.
In some other operating systems, (not windoze) the directory structure has
been designed to reflect system organization in better ways. I think both
AmigaOS and BeOS have been great in that respect, and Plan 9 looked like a
lot of fun.
On Solaris systems, I've seen that system admins usually practiced dividing
the system (on the network) to many subsystems.
Thanks,
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Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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