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From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Unix on CD?
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Date: 26 Apr 88 21:40:53 GMT
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   From: Ken Yap <ken@cs.rochester.EDU>

   Hmm. Unix system binaries don't change that often. What if most of
   /bin, /usr, /lib were put on a CD?

   Has this been done already? Or planned? Or too impractical yet/ever?

Or mounted as a read-only file system. As I understand it, SunOS 4.0
will have /usr mounted RO, with symbolic links to writable files.
Berkeley is planning a new file reorganization as well.

	   Ken

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