Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 01:30:51 -0600 From: Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> To: Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> Cc: Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD user home directory Message-ID: <CABx9NuTzK9MPuym3sdwFkwE33qynH3TV=9NUdEL-sYJ_8Fg-bg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CABx9NuSiLd6z1keLGpZV9W4_rimfHM-zm-k0%2Bk1ChsVDZaXWvQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <79BCA7CB-4D6A-45AF-8432-FD7F8577B42F@dsl-only.net> <20160721030322.GL65494@FreeBSD.org> <9F4673FD-828B-4809-911B-00EDD601C425@dsl-only.net> <CABx9NuSiLd6z1keLGpZV9W4_rimfHM-zm-k0%2Bk1ChsVDZaXWvQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:20 AM, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:59 AM, Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> wrote: >> On 2016-Jul-20, at 8:03 PM, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 07:54:27PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote: >>>> Looking at my armv6 and amd64 11.0's (long in use, originally >>>> -CURRENT, now -STABLE, maintained via source updates): >>>> >>>> amd64 and armv6 (rpi2) both have real /usr/home directories. >>>> >>>> armv6 (and rpi2) has no /home path established at all, not even >>>> as a symbolic link to elsewhere. >>>> >>>> amd64 has /home -> usr/home via a symbolic link. > > I think Mark is indicating what first caught my eye: the user is > created in a real /home directory. The new symbolic link will create a > /usr/home reference, but my experience historically (and unfortunately > anecdotally at this time) has been the real directory is /usr/home. I > can see that what Glen did is consistent with the pw(8) command he > quoted earlier so his solution is possibly "more correct"? The real > question though is does it make any difference (I'm not an expert on > linking)? And if it does, should all planned tier 1 platforms (i.e. > x86,amd64 and aarch64) be checked/corrected for consistency? oops nevermind, I see now that perhaps it's a ZFS thing? I don't have vbox around to spin up an default amd64 instance. :( Perhaps a better question for another mailing list? It seems to me it would be easier to create the zfs dataset under /home? Russ
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