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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-04-13 10:36:54 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-04-13 11:11:01 +0200
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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2013 Free
+Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag faq/running]]
+
+[[!meta title="Why is `/usr' a symbolic link to `.'?"]]
+
+The distinction between `/` and `/usr` has historical reasons. Back when [[Unix]]
+systems were booted from two tapes, a small root tape and a big user tape.
+Today, we like to use different partitions for these two spaces. The Hurd
+throws this historical garbage away. We think that we have found a more
+flexible solution called union filesystems, which allow to create virtual
+filesystems which are the union of several other filesystems. However, support
+for union filesystems is [[still in early development|hurd/translator/unionfs]].