Re:Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js
by komali2 on Thursday August 31, 2017 @01:47PM
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A good example - I have no idea why unix filesystems are like that, and after some idle googling I still don't know. Can't even figure out where to start to find the history of those decisions. Certainly am finding what kind of stuff goes where.
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Re:Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js
by nomel on Thursday August 31, 2017 @10:52PM
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Some old Unix devs/users ran out of disk space, so they mounted more disk to those points. This caused boot problems since some tools (like mount) needed to be available. All of that together, along with people blindly following convention, and you have the mess of the unix filesystem. Yep... [1]
[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074...