New Harddisk
Saturday 19 February 2005 ◷ 19:44
The original idea behind the organisation of a *nix directory hierarchy is pretty neat. Everything is devided into logical sections so it is possible to use the least amount of space required by reusing whatever is possible. Files that can be both used for i386 architectures and other architectures like PPC and sparc are kept seperately from architecture specific files, so if files are the same they don't have to be on the system twice. The system in this sense is a network where more than one architecture is used and all architectures can use the same files via a network, in such a way it's not even nessecary for individual workstations to have a harddisk.
All this was very nifty when diskspace was expensive, but nowadays it's not very handy to set up systems like this when diskspace is cheap. So I bought a 160GB disk and no longer care about efficient use of diskspace.
ipenburg
Sunday 20 February 2005 ◷ 01:01
re: New Harddisk