From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Thu Jul 21 07:30:53 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC86B9EF2C for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:30:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from russ.haley@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vk0-x229.google.com (mail-vk0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c05::229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DB2151187; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:30:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from russ.haley@gmail.com) Received: by mail-vk0-x229.google.com with SMTP id w127so101812525vkh.2; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:30:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=mmRvHNSmDQ/3cpawAjGKLnYE5lFZwxyuH/4NDe3ggyI=; b=DsIjQuSl7GmRHmuy99BDlLxYOIVyuBnXFUT1brkHhovx+hvu/1M5T5Je5XEG2sbBFB giac74dXfHl4X7GMV4YyJvksAH1ThBluE8XejLTxwCQw2a3w6T8DXzJMkmHLG1FO8iKP 4T+RkK86UBj1+7tSFbhdfYbJUtzCDGDZShU4hOrI62qYVF5z3AB1RL9qIa2Fl4UV5gFH MDfKvo8DfTSBNS0BZhhBZ1jz6VVdRIFMDQtzJzSg0EHXUe0pHGAUIJ9wTufAQM6cKGJx S7XBWwdMKXHOR4jJCaZrlvksbxM77zY0Rhd1d5TTsRDLvcmEj/rJnVjXE69VDZHAjzn3 oSFw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=mmRvHNSmDQ/3cpawAjGKLnYE5lFZwxyuH/4NDe3ggyI=; b=bg7CxB9SSnWqRCal32IjQtt4FLM07fGHtOuv9pdZkkHYU7/o5/T9cd3g+qYDEtA9sA xm6jL53FLSzTpQEKQ1IMsw5I/2oEHFwUA29snbHTLz/pmCAVLWQnLqwwTzDv8Z/YIV5K FzC8Khyt8hCIGEKOxQ1U46DOQtLVclx6qyFJReLF1P7oPOsTys7wpRYR6Wl/UCN5dxx5 6I2MNDERLjXeTfCPS82JEBA5fihlbIpUDNHS01DYTDGhnz7+y3kgmk0Qywz0ggE3ylcb oSqvZGImfuU0OTQ63bhUch3SHVKS8bhwbAlx3AAAae3gE5t8KdZCoKicpblHA6Aplvjq CW8w== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tIcasB5JsHARRNRT9Iowg2eyWQfjnBvhT00LbXMCYHJzm7MGFuIO+RxJudIS5OlW9gVfnVkDsaSesmldQ== X-Received: by 10.31.76.66 with SMTP id z63mr26336525vka.107.1469086252133; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:30:52 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.31.54.75 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:30:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <79BCA7CB-4D6A-45AF-8432-FD7F8577B42F@dsl-only.net> <20160721030322.GL65494@FreeBSD.org> <9F4673FD-828B-4809-911B-00EDD601C425@dsl-only.net> From: Russell Haley Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 01:30:51 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD user home directory To: Mark Millard Cc: Glen Barber , freebsd-arm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:30:53 -0000 On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:20 AM, Russell Haley wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:59 AM, Mark Millard wrote: >> On 2016-Jul-20, at 8:03 PM, Glen Barber 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