Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:53:16 -0600 From: "William M. Grim" <wgrim@siue.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: symlink: /home -> /usr/home vs. /home -> usr/home in default installation Message-ID: <4012E94C.7030409@siue.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040124154138.D7145@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <opr179igyrvqh6g7@mail.ukr.net> <20040124154138.D7145@woozle.rinet.ru>
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Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: >On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Andriy Tkachuk wrote: > >AT> The idea is this: if you mount your / to another >AT> place (for example /mnt on another computer), your >AT> /mnt/home will point to correct place (/mnt/usr/home) >AT> instead of /usr/home. >AT> >AT> What do you, falks, think about this? > >FWIW, I'm making virtually every symlink relative instead of absolute for just >this reason. (To be exact, more similar to Solaris' approach, so >/sys -> ./usr/src/sys and /home -> ./usr/home) > > This is the second time I've posted about this, but I'm beginning to think this is a very good idea. I really don't foresee any problems with it. Since you guys already have some of this work complete, perhaps you could submit a PR for it? -- William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. Phone: (217) 341-6552 Email: wgrim@siue.edu
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