symlink: /home -> /usr/home vs. /home -> usr/home in default installation

Dmitry Morozovsky marck at rinet.ru
Sat Jan 24 04:43:11 PST 2004


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 at rinet.ru ***
------------------------------------------------------------------------


More information about the freebsd-hackers mailing list