Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 20:50:07 GMT From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/163102: linprocfs mounted in wrong location in Handbook Message-ID: <201112072050.pB7Ko7Ue011704@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/163102; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: Kevin Baxter <voidchicken@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/163102: linprocfs mounted in wrong location in Handbook Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:48:36 +0200 On 7/12/2011 8:38 μμ, Kevin Baxter wrote: > >> If it happens that 9.0 installs into /compat, we should either add >> this to the documentation or file a PR so that either the linux_base >> package or bsdinstall creates the link. >> But from the current PR it seems the OP was using 8.2-RELEASE which >> should not exhibit this. > > > I'm using a ZFS root, so I used the wiki's RootOnZFS page to install > (which doesn't use sysinstall, and doesn't mention /compat). > Ah, that explains it then. We could add this info to the wiki or just change the Handbook to /compat instead of /usr/compat since this will work in all cases anyway. I'm more inclined to do the latter (maybe with an additional note on custom installs). > So is this a case of a non-standard installation being unsupported? > Should the wiki be changed to include that symlink? Or should one of > the install scripts be changed to make the symlink? > As it happens, bsdinstall on 9.0-RC3 still won't make the link so /compat is again created as a directory rather than a symlink. The default installation now uses a single UFS partition for everything rather than the legacy slice with /tmp /usr/ /var etc. so the probability of installing something on / and going out of disk space is minimal (but not zero, as someone may still opt to use MBR partitions and linux_base needs about 140 Mb of space). A PR for bsdinstall(8) for this is probably a good idea.
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