[1058] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Hand-modifications to make Linux-Athena work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jered J Floyd)
Sat Sep 16 06:49:36 1995
To: ddaniel@vigor.JPL.NASA.GOV
Cc: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, linux-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Sep 1995 19:11:36 PDT."
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 06:46:59 -0400
From: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
> 3) what about making sure /var/vice/cache is a separate partition of
> sufficient size? Also we need to insure it gets mounted at boot time.
I personally don't recommend this because of the magic of the root partition.
If you have your AFS cache on the root partition, you don't have to fsck
every time you boot. This has always been explained to me as "The root
partition is magic." Anyone have a better reason?
--Jered
