Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 19:59:29 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>, 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: <200112090359.fB93xTL34741@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20011209003829.C6171@cicely8.cicely.de> <20011209005732.019053808@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20011209025547.B7042@cicely8.cicely.de> <200112090223.fB92NKf34327@apollo.backplane.com> <20011209041249.D7042@cicely8.cicely.de>
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/var/users vs /home is a discussable point, but none of the rest of
your posting makes any sense. Network mounts have absolutely nothing
whatsoever to do with sysinstall's 'A'uto partitioning option and
the paper you site is interesting, but seriously out of date.
If I look up /var/users in google (which really treats them as two
separate words, but it's still a valid test)... I get 347 hits. Total.
If I look up /usr/home I get around 46,500 hits, a quick perursal seems
to indicate that this test is reasonably valid. Of course /home won't
work in google (you get 232 million results), but in relative terms
I would say that it's pretty conclusive that at least in so far as
the paper you are siting, very few people have actually partitioned
their machines with a /var/users.
Not even freefall.freebsd.org uses /var/users. It uses /<blah>/home
(/d/home, etc...)... essentially /home, so I would hardly call my
use of /home in sysinstall 'non standard'.
If we look at the 'adduser' perl script (/usr/src/usr.sbin/adduser),
which I did *NOT* write by the way, it presumes /home as the default.
So, again, it would seem that my choice of /home is fairly standard.
-Matt
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