Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:51:57 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> Cc: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <200112090951.fB99pvM36406@apollo.backplane.com> References: <51037.1007889647@winston.freebsd.org>
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:> /home has become *The* standard place for one's home dir.
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:And you're smoking some bad crack if you think there's *any such
:thing* as a standard here, much less "*The* standard" :-)
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:- Jordan
The path '/home' is certainly a defacto standard. As its own partition,
directory in some other partition, softlink, or other contrivance,
there is no standard, so for the layperson we choose something
reasonable -- A directory is quite reasonable. We get logical separation
for backup/restore/transfer/management purposes, and we get a nice place
to put all that extra disk space. Perfect for the layperson. Not
perfect for the developer but still quite reasonable, and the developer
is smart enough to adjust the partitioning the way he wants (just as we
do now considering the crap 'A'uto gneerates pre-patch). So don't
complain, this is actually an improvement over what we have.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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