Ok, I don't get this discussion. My user is not a sudoer on bots-1, so I cannot setup my own /data/projects directory. Obviously it is a matter of convenience to just use the home directory. And this is a common usage pattern on many hosting services (such as the toolserver). It should be absolutely no surprise that this happens. Daniel
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > ~ 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Labs-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
