<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 25, 2011, at 21:07 , Angelo McComis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><font color="#330033"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">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?</font></font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#330033"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">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.</font></font></font></div><p><font color="#330033"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I would vote "unwise" for this one, unfortunately.</font></font></font></p></blockquote><div>Not a stupid question. People have done crazier things to their boxen. A good discussion can be had on "why not"</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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 :)</div><div><br></div><div>-rj</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Steve VanSlyck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s.vanslyck@spamcop.net">s.vanslyck@spamcop.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">How easy/difficult/impossible and/or unwise would it be to install Linux<br>such that all of the OS files" are consinged to their own subdirectory,<br>
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