On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 6:14 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:

On Thursday, 27 September 2018 at 21:50:58 +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
>
> At college we had /h but that may be an interdata/edition7
> thing. mine was /h/beng4/ssimon.

This sounds like a workaround for short pathname limits, particularly
with System V. I had a file system mounted on /S for the same reason
decades ago.

At Solboure, we had /h/admin /o/os /o/home /x/build /x/home /x/prod etc. The reason for this was the SunOS automounter and bugs it had that required each machine to have a different top level directory. Luckily we only had like 4 servers... This was to prevent hanging /h mounts when the /x machine would go away and someone would do an ls in that directory. That bug got fixed in the 4.0 -> 4.1 transition, but we none-the-less kept the structure because it was too painful to transition...

Warner