[colug-432] Stoopid Question

[Angelo McComis]

To me, this would be like having one of those binary clocks as an alarm
clock-- First thing you have to do when you wake up in the morning is work
out a math problem. Who wants to do that?

The same would go for any "work" you'd want to do in such a configuration.
You'd always be trying to work out the problem of where
/usr/bin/{something}, /sbin/{blah}, /etc/{stuff} actually lives.  Or, you'd
be forever chasing down symlinks that you need to create, so that an app
that insists on putting his PID file into /var/run actually could write his
PID file there, and so on and so forth.

I would vote "unwise" for this one, unfortunately.



On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck at spamcop.net>wrote:

> How easy/difficult/impossible and/or unwise would it be to install Linux
> such that all of the OS files" are consinged to their own subdirectory,
> such as /Linux/var and so on, instead of the normal layout of sitting on
> root?
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