docs/163102: linprocfs mounted in wrong location in Handbook

[Manolis Kiagias]

The following reply was made to PR docs/163102; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com>
To: Kevin Baxter <voidchicken at gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-doc at freebsd.org, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/163102: linprocfs mounted in wrong location in Handbook
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:48:36 +0200

 On 7/12/2011 8:38 ìì, Kevin Baxter wrote:
 >
 >> If it happens that 9.0 installs into /compat, we should either add 
 >> this to the documentation or file a PR so that either the linux_base 
 >> package or bsdinstall creates the link.
 >> But from the current PR it seems the OP was using 8.2-RELEASE which 
 >> should not exhibit this.
 >
 >
 > I'm using a ZFS root, so I used the wiki's RootOnZFS page to install 
 > (which doesn't use sysinstall, and doesn't mention /compat).
 >
 
 Ah, that explains it then.
 We could add this info to the wiki or just change the Handbook to 
 /compat instead of /usr/compat since this will work in all cases anyway. 
 I'm more inclined to do the latter (maybe with an additional note on 
 custom installs).
 
 > So is this a case of a non-standard installation being unsupported? 
 > Should the wiki be changed to include that symlink? Or should one of 
 > the install scripts be changed to make the symlink?
 >
 
 As it happens, bsdinstall on 9.0-RC3 still won't make the link so 
 /compat is again created as a directory rather than a symlink. The 
 default installation now uses a single UFS partition for everything 
 rather than the legacy slice with /tmp /usr/ /var etc. so the 
 probability of installing something on / and going out of disk space is 
 minimal (but not zero, as someone may still opt to use MBR partitions 
 and linux_base needs about 140 Mb of space). A PR for bsdinstall(8) for 
 this is probably a good idea.