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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008 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
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+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]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[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.