[clue] seeking advice cleaning up root

[Dennis J Perkins]

On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 12:41 -0600, chris fedde wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Raymond DeRoo <rderoo at deroo.net> wrote:
> >
> > Relocating MySQL, Postgres and other RDBMS data directory and then symlinking it is nearly always a bad idea and strongly discouraged. If you need to move it from the default location ( which it should be moved from /var/lib ) then edit the appropriate config file and change the datadir accordingly.
> >
> > .r
> 
> I'm curious who has "strongly discouraged" using symbolic links in
> this way?  I know that sysadmins each have habits and tastes of choice
> but I can think of no performance or maintenance reason why use of
> symbolic links in this way should cause a problem.
> 
> Personally I prefer using links in this way and letting the
> application config remain default.
> Using symbolic links has the advantage of minimizing change tracking
> required at upgrade time.   Symbolic links are a stable feature of the
> OS and can be safely used to isolate applications and users from
> complexities of the deployment history.
> 
> As always: programmers solve complexity by adding layers of indirection.
> 
> chris
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I would like to know that too.
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