28 Sep
2018
28 Sep
'18
2:50 a.m.
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
28 Sep
28 Sep
4:09 a.m.
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(a)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
6:14 a.m.
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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On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 6:14 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com>
wrote:
On Thursday, 27 September 2018 at 21:50:58 +0100,
Steve Simon wrote:
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
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.
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