From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 9 1:52: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A58E337B417 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:51:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fB99pvM36406; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:51:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:51:57 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200112090951.fB99pvM36406@apollo.backplane.com> To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Bernd Walter , 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) References: <51037.1007889647@winston.freebsd.org> 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 : :> /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" :-) : :- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message