[rescue] Dumb SGI Indigo^2 question...

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:55:52PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > Boot into the miniroot from the CD.  IRIX requires that /usr always be
> > mounted, as almost all the dynamic library stuff happens there.
>
> Bad IRIX.

Yes, it's not one of the things that I'm proud of.  Isn't it funny how a
company that can get so much right with filesystem internals (ie: XFS
and CXFS) can get so much wrong with the upper levels of filesystem
abstraction (ie: requiring /usr to be mounted, symlinking /var to
/usr/var, etc.)?

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