svn commit: r288291 - head/etc

[Cy Schubert]

In message <9ca0ba1b-d9b3-6028-5645-d8d03e730f5e at freebsd.org>, Allan Jude 
write
s:
> On 2016-06-18 23:32, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > i think that's fine for -11. I'd like to just move limits to /bin for
> > 12. (I mean, it's 2016, why are you splitting / and /usr again? But..)
> > 
> 
> bsdinstall for UFS just uses one big /, and ZFS does something similar
> for boot environments. Only people who have partitioned manually, or
> upgraded in place from 8.x or earlier, will still have separate / and
> /usr. We can't throw those people under the bus, but, it is reasonable
> to consider switching things around for 12.

This is only an issue legacy systems, systems that have had their disks be 
installed on faster systems and systems which have been cloned from older 
systems (dump | restore). There's something to be said about an O/S that 
doesn't need to be re-imaged every hardware/software upgrade or migration.

It's also an issue for systems which have a small local root/ramdisk, and 
mount /usr via NFS. I managed a setup like this (not FreeBSD) once.


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Cheers,
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