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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-04-13 10:36:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-04-13 11:11:01 +0200 |
| commit | 38cfa89677eabc85fc23e31e24cee85fb1ecfa54 (patch) | |
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Rework FAQ machinery to be based on tags instead of filenames.
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diff --git a/faq/slash_usr_symlink.mdwn b/faq/slash_usr_symlink.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0c586d4d --- /dev/null +++ b/faq/slash_usr_symlink.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2013 Free +Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag faq/running]] + +[[!meta title="Why is `/usr' a symbolic link to `.'?"]] + +The distinction between `/` and `/usr` has historical reasons. Back when [[Unix]] +systems were booted from two tapes, a small root tape and a big user tape. +Today, we like to use different partitions for these two spaces. The Hurd +throws this historical garbage away. We think that we have found a more +flexible solution called union filesystems, which allow to create virtual +filesystems which are the union of several other filesystems. However, support +for union filesystems is [[still in early development|hurd/translator/unionfs]]. |