Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:56:32 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: docs/163102: linprocfs mounted in wrong location in Handbook Message-ID: <4EE12480.3030606@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EE11E0E.1060207@FreeBSD.org> References: <201112071830.pB7IUEHQ082055@freefall.freebsd.org> <4EE0F6B2.8090005@FreeBSD.org> <CAE-mSO%2B%2B__iE7er7nt0drE3RJR15ENBRdkH1aziTshS%2BJYfT9w@mail.gmail.com> <4EE11E0E.1060207@FreeBSD.org>
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On 8/12/2011 10:29 μμ, John Baldwin wrote: > On 12/8/11 1:57 PM, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: >> >> Also from man hier: >> >> /compat/ normally a link to /usr/compat. If not, then the >> /usr/compat >> comments apply (created by sysinstall(8)) >> ... >> /usr/compat/ files needed to support binary compatibility with >> other operating systems, such as Linux >> (created by >> sysinstall(8)) > > I would be fine with removing the /usr/compat entry from this manpage > and moving its description to the /compat entry. I would drop mention > of sysinstall(8), and maybe add a note to say that /compat is typically > a symlink to /usr/compat (though that will not be true on a 9.0 > machine). I guess it was left out of bsdinstall due to the one big / > layout, but for users who use a custom layout (e.g. myself, I don't like > one big /), it might be nice if bsdinstall did this rather than forcing > users to have to remember this detail. Probably correct, for users opting to go with the traditional partitioning scheme, / may prove to be too small when linux_base gets installed. It would be best if bsdinstall creates the link for /compat. > Does bsdinstall always make > /home a symlink to /usr/home to support custom layouts? If so, it > should apply the same logic to /compat. It might be nice if it could > "notice" that /usr is separate and auto-create /compat and /home links > in that case if it is currently doing nothing for /home. > As a matter of fact, bsdinstall will not create /home at all if you don't create a user during install. But if you opt to create a user, adduser(8) is called and it actually creates both /usr/home and the /home link. So in short yes, we still have /usr/home and the /home symlink, but it is not directly created by bsdinstall.
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