filePro RAID comments wanted

[Kenneth Brody]

Walter Vaughan wrote:
[...]
> What I need is advice on keeping things simple. Since day one
> we've always had an /etc/default/fppath that looks like
> /appl
> 
> /appl
> 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.
[...]

You could always make "/appl" the mount point.  Then, instead of
    /appl
    [blank]
    /appl
you would use:
    /appl
    /appl
    [blank]

Or, use "/u/appl" and simply symlink "/appl" to "/u/appl" to take
care of the hard-coded "/appl" references.

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