[726] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Try something new? (was Re: {/bin,/etc}/athena)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Tue Sep 27 23:08:09 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 23:07:51 +0500
To: svalente@MIT.EDU
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199409280242.WAA00475@quiche-lorraine.mit.edu> (message from Salvatore Valente on Tue, 27 Sep 1994 22:42:08 -0400)
WARNING: this message contains information on a new topic. If you
wish to continue flaming about the original topic, find another
message. :-)
Frankly, I think the whole Athena filesystem
layout sucks. If I was going to reorganize it, I'd make sure
everything is in /usr/athena and create /usr/athena/sbin for the
appropriate stuff and make the correct divisions between
/usr/athena/etc and /usr/athena/lib... That is, I'd do more than
simply eliminating /bin/athena and /etc/athena. But it's not up to
us. If we want to look like Athena workstations, we have to take the
good with the bad, and have files accessable through the pathnames
that they have on Athena workstations.
Actually, there are a couple ways in which we might be able to just
punt the current athena ws layout for linux, either via `Layered
Athena' or by starting work on a new, more sensible layout (with
effort put into finding the right places to replaicate stuff on
non-local space and such). I know for a fact that once Athena finally
gets rid of the DS31000's (the last public machine with teensy local
disk) that they're going to reexamine where things are and what is
kept on local disk and what isn't. If we were to work on this we
could probably get our work considered (taken?) when Athena does it.
So, maybe we should hold a `design your own filesystem layout'
contest. Anyone want to volunteer to run it? :-)
chad
