FreeBSD user home directory

[Russell Haley]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:20 AM, Russell Haley <russ.haley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:59 AM, Mark Millard <markmi at dsl-only.net> wrote:
>> On 2016-Jul-20, at 8:03 PM, Glen Barber <gjb at 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