Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:43:07 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Andriy Tkachuk <andrit@ukr.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: symlink: /home -> /usr/home vs. /home -> usr/home in default installation Message-ID: <20040124154138.D7145@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <opr179igyrvqh6g7@mail.ukr.net> References: <opr179igyrvqh6g7@mail.ukr.net>
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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) Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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