~ is a nice place for private data and configuration but production
services, such as bots, should be on a different filesystem. I don't think
you installed all your applications on your personal computer to home
folder.


On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Ori Livneh <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:
> > We're switching the home directories to gluster on Monday. That said,
> it's recommended to not use /home even after the switch.
>
> The fact that you've so often had to remind people not to use ~/ suggests
> that it violates people's intuitions and expectations about UNIX
> environments. That's certainly been my experience: I keep having to remind
> myself not to pile things up in ~/, which forces me to have to rethink a
> lot of things that have become practically muscle memory, like setting up a
> virtualenv under ~/ for various handy Python packages.
>
> Are the reasons for deprecating the use of ~/ for storage of personal
> files fundamental to the architecture of labs? If not, I think it'd be
> worth reconsidering.
>
> Thanks as always for maintaining such a useful service.
>
> Ori
>
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