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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: File hierarchy (was Re: Linux or FreeBSD)
Date: 18 Sep 1995 22:40:17 +0200
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Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> wrote:

>The one thing that's typically bothered me about the Linux filesystem
>layout standard is that it's too specific (at least the last one I saw).
>What makes more sense if a document outlining what you get when you
>put `/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin' in your path, etc.

...and to add one more point: one thing i've probably liked most on
(4.4)BSD's hierarchy is that there are no bloody binaries under /etc.
(Ok, a symlink to rmt(8) which is needed to satisfy the rmt "proto-
col".)

This really allows to grep through all the files in /etc, and the
backup of /etc easily fits onto a single floppy, saving all the
per-system configuration.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)