Opinion, predating that era: I believe that the driver for /home was automounter, because of the complexity of referencing local and remote /export/foo/whatever/username paths consistently across a large NFS-enabled university deployment with many different platforms and individual systems.

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, 13:11 Cág, <ca6c@bitmessage.ch> wrote:

Hi,

The earliest I've found to be in the FHS from '94. Are there any earlier
examples of a home directory being at /home instead of /usr/$(user)? Are
there any current Unix systems that don't use /home by default (except
OSX)? Does anybody here do it intentionally? Also, what was the
rationale of moving the directory to /home?

Thanks!

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caóc