Re: The advantages of splitting /bin and /usr/bin, and /sbin and /usr/sbin outweigh the disadvantages
Le Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 08:40:15PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson a écrit :
> https://css.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2014/papers/plan9.pdf
>
> > Of course, these advantages have become impossible now with the
> > merging of directories
>
> No. Not impossible. One simply has to overcome inertia and the
> nostalgia that many leading lights in the Linux community have for 1980s
> Unix systems.
>
> As I understand it, the division of root and /usr file systems
> originates in the capacity limits of disk packs for the DEC PDP-11 and
> VAX-11 series of computers. It's of a piece with the 640kB RAM limit
> afflicting the IBM PC architecture.
>
> In other words, nonsense that should be discarded with great force at
> the first opporunity, which arrived decades ago.
You could say the same about any single feature of UNIX remaining in
Debian...
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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