Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)

Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010) by bonzini on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @04:05PM (#22620701)

Putting everything in a single directory allows you to mount it from a remote for system with a single mount point. /usr means "the part of the OS that is the same across all hosts".

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Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010) by gweinberg on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @08:02PM (#22622841)

Everything is always in a single directory, it's called "/". I don't see why you think the files under /usr are particularly likely to be remote mounted.

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Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010) by afiori on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:48AM (#22626911)

If you remotely mount "/" then you ran out of namespace for non-remote files.

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Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010) by sjmulder on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @08:11PM (#22622899)

Isn’t that supposed to be share/ and maybe a few others? bin/ and lib/ are architecture specific.

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