[colug-432] Stoopid Question

[Richard Hornsby]

On Jan 25, 2011, at 21:07 , Angelo McComis wrote:

> 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.
> 
Not a stupid question.  People have done crazier things to their boxen.  A good discussion can be had on "why not"

I would tend to agree.  You'll almost certainly end up having to either create a whole bunch of specific symlinks for things one app/library or another finds missing, or you'll find that you've created symlinks in / to all of the directories that would normally be there - which means you haven't really gained much except to cause yourself a massive headache by having tried every other way not to do that. You'll likely have a bunch of pissed off co-admins and users asking "wtf?" if you have any of those on this box.

Like so many things in Linux (and maybe IT in general) -- you *can* do what you're proposing, but you either really should have a damn good reason for doing it or just shouldn't :)

-rj




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> 
> 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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