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

From: William M. Grim (wgrim_at_siue.edu)
Date: 01/24/04

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    Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:53:16 -0600
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    Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:

    >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)
    >
    >
    This is the second time I've posted about this, but I'm beginning to
    think this is a very good idea. I really don't foresee any problems
    with it. Since you guys already have some of this work complete,
    perhaps you could submit a PR for it? 

    -- 
William Michael Grim
Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept.
Phone: (217) 341-6552
Email: wgrim@siue.edu
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