Teamsite install on symbolic links

kannan_r

hi

wehad to install TS last week on a server which had

df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
LogVol00 4.9G 409M 4.2G 9% /
LogVol06 3.0G 285M 2.5G 11% /tmp
LogVol03 3.9G 1.9G 1.9G 50% /usr
LogVol01 2.0G 68M 1.8G 4% /home
LogVol05 2.0G 278M 1.6G 15% /usr/local
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 99M 12M 83M 13% /boot
tmpfs 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm
VolGroup 79G 6.7G 73G 9% /opt/Interwoven

Only /opt/interwoven had the max space so few choices installing TS on /opt/interwoven volume.

just to maintian consistency with dev /QA servers we had to create symlinks to

1) /Interwoven -> /opt/Interwoven/
2)/iwmnt -> /opt/Interwoven/iwmnt/
3) /iw-store to /opt/Interwoven/iw-store

after that installed TS to their default paths ie /Interwoven/Teamsite and /iwmnt /iw-store

question now is have we done any thing that is not supported or recommended ?

I am asking this question due to two reasons

Since I am the only user right now , can format /reinstall OS with sufficient space to root partition and install TS all over again.

two : issue is much simpler as there are no users or any live content now, future when users start using TS and there is live content ,do want any issues due to the way TS is installed.

Let me know your thoughts ?

Adam Stoller

If you have the option to wipe/re-format/re-install as desired - I'd take it.
Symbolic links can be nice, but they can also cause problems, often in strange and difficult to discern ways. So, if you're choice is between losing a couple of hours to re-configure the hardware vs. potentially losing hours, days, even weeks of time later trying to debug a problem caused by the use of a symlink.... well you get the picture.