filePro RAID comments wanted

[Fairlight]

Simon--er, no...it was Walter Vaughan--said:
> so everything's been in /appl/filepro or /appl/fp. Since FreeBSD
> and most other systems like to suggest mounting user directories
> and other sundries on different mount points the / directory
> typically only gets 10-20% of the disk space, which sucks for
> the /appl end of things.
> I've noticed that many of us have filepro mounted on a /u mount
> point, HOWEVER we've got probably 10,000 places in code since
> 1986 that has hard coded locations like /appl/fp/shellscript.
> 
[snip]
> 
> Anyway I think that the best thing would be to have
> a single mount point rather than accept the defaults
> and then combine the disk space that would have gone
> to /usr with the / mount point. Its not like I plan or would

> I'm not worried about fdisk times. I've jerked the plugs out

You shouldn't be if you use a journalling fs.  :)

I don't understand your quandry.  If you install fP in /u/appl and adjust
the variables in fppath to fit, fP will run properly.

You're citing cases where you've got hardcoded entries to scripts and such
that are expected to be in /appl.  

The solution seems quite simple.  Install to /u/appl [or wherever], and for
your legacy accomodations:

     ln -s /u/appl /appl

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