» The merged directory /usr, containing almost the entire vendor-supplied operating system resources, offers us a number of new features regarding OS snapshotting and options for enterprise environments for network sharing or running multiple guests on one host. Most of this is much harder to accomplish, or even impossible, with the current arbitrary split of tools across multiple directories.
With all vendor-supplied OS resources in a single directory /usr they may be shared atomically, snapshots of them become atomic, and the file system may be made read-only as a single unit. «
hmmm, I think I've brought this up before and forgotten the response, something along the lines of they are not static anymore anyway. They are atleast majoratively on OpenBSD. I believe /bin, /sbin aka the root, etc. traditionally contained static binaries so you would have a highly reliable working core system with just say a 50 Mb / partition that you could easily hack and restore and rarely remount for example. I welcome the read-only root though and I haven't looked and forget some of the complexities at play. -- ________________________________________________________ Why not do something good every day and install BOINC. ________________________________________________________