[TUHS] /home

[TUHS] /home

[Steve Simon]

At college we had /h but that may be an interdata/edition7 thing. mine was /h/beng4/ssimon.

each course/year was in a separate disk partition - if group filled their partition other groups could still work.

-Steve

Re: [TUHS] /home

[Clem Cole]

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Right...  was how quotas were done before FFS and 4.2 and very typical of a
university set up
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 4:51 PM Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

>
> At college we had /h but that may be an interdata/edition7 thing. mine was
> /h/beng4/ssimon.
>
> each course/year was in a separate disk partition - if group filled their
> partition other groups could still work.
>
> -Steve
>

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Re: [TUHS] /home

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

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On Thursday, 27 September 2018 at 21:50:58 +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
>
> At college we had /h but that may be an interdata/edition7
> thing. mine was /h/beng4/ssimon.

This sounds like a workaround for short pathname limits, particularly
with System V.  I had a file system mounted on /S for the same reason
decades ago.

Greg
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Re: [TUHS] /home

[Warner Losh]

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On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 6:14 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 27 September 2018 at 21:50:58 +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
> >
> > At college we had /h but that may be an interdata/edition7
> > thing. mine was /h/beng4/ssimon.
>
> This sounds like a workaround for short pathname limits, particularly
> with System V.  I had a file system mounted on /S for the same reason
> decades ago.


At Solboure, we had /h/admin /o/os /o/home /x/build /x/home /x/prod etc.
The reason for this was the SunOS automounter and bugs it had that required
each machine to have a different top level directory. Luckily we only had
like 4 servers... This was to prevent hanging /h mounts when the /x machine
would go away and someone would do an ls in that directory. That bug got
fixed in the 4.0 -> 4.1 transition, but we none-the-less kept the structure
because it was too painful to transition...

Warner

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