From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 9 5:56:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE0AE37B405 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 05:56:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id FAA00997; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 05:54:50 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda00995; Sun Dec 9 05:54:30 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fB9DsP157259; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 05:54:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(10.1.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdG57245; Sun Dec 9 05:53:39 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fB9Drcq44545; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 05:53:38 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200112091353.fB9Drcq44545@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdV44541; Sun Dec 9 05:53:35 2001 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Bernd Walter , Matthew Dillon , Garance A Drosihn , "Louis A. Mamakos" , Sheldon Hearn , Kirk McKusick , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Dec 2001 01:20:47 PST." <51037.1007889647@winston.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 05:53:35 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <51037.1007889647@winston.freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard writes: > > /home has become *The* standard place for one's home dir. > > And you're smoking some bad crack if you think there's *any such > thing* as a standard here, much less "*The* standard" :-) The thing about standards is that there's so many to choose from. Of the few systems we (OSG) owns, we conform to the "OSG" standard. Each of the customers that I have inherited, e.g. they had an installed base of machines my team had not installed from scratch, have their own standards different from my standards and different from each other's standards. In a couple of cases it appears there are no standards whatsoever where in fact various standards used by these customers are an evolution of various standards used by various sysadmins and contractors who had worked at these customer sites over the years. In short, personally, I would like to think that my approach is the standard (or the right way to do it), however I would be in a state of delusion if I actually believed that. Before we roll up our sleeves and build this bikeshed, could we decide on its color please. My vote is green. :) Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Email: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD Ministry of Management Services Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message