Nathan Scott wrote:
Second time (sorry, my fault, shouldn't try sending mails without a cup
of coffee in the early morning ;-) ).
>
> > > just a small thing, but it could become a headache later - is
> > > anyone violently opposed to this change...?
> > Not really... but I think a better idea would be
> > to have /usr/xfs/ put all of our binaries in there,
> > with links in /sbin.
I like this one very much ... but ...
> >
>
> well, mkfs is a bit special - /usr might be a separate filesystem
> and might not be mounted at the time mkfs is needed. perhaps the
> same is true for the other xfs tools too, i'm not sure.
>
> could implement your approach going the other way though (i.e.
> having links from /usr/xfs/* to the real binary in /sbin, but
> i'm not sure what that buys us...? do the different distributions
> do different things here? what does the lfs say on this?)
!
So, why don't you put it all to /sbin/xfs with links to /sbin. Then all
is in a save and clean place (perhaps with version-numbers in the
directory name if some likes). I do it with my GFS tools (different
versions in /sbin/gfs3.6 and /sbin/gfs3.15 with an actual ln -s
/sbin/gfs3.6 /sbin/gfs and a ln -s /sbin/gfs/mkfs_gfs /sbin/mkfs.gfs.
I think it's quick and clean.
Bye
Klaus (urgently waiting for XFS on Linux. BTW. is it compatible with
IRIX XFS, and does it work an my Indy at home. I'm waiting for a
bootable rootfilesystem on Linux MIPS! ;-).
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