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Re: Non standard SAP filesystem structure

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (xaver deutsch)
Thu Jan 5 02:18:05 2006

To: sapr3-news@mit.edu
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:17:14 +0100
From: xaver deutsch <aufderheid@arcor.de>
Message-ID: <43bcc7fa$0$7403$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net>

You buy a standard software, give me any reason not to use the sap 
standard.

Any time I had such diskussions with IT i went to project management and 
the IT changed their mind.

Leave it as it is.


Jur wrote:
> Moi Tjui wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is it possible to use a Non standard SAP filesystem structure under Unix?
>>
>> For the SAP application we would like to use for example:
>>
>> /usr/sap/<SID> becomes /data/usr/sap/<SID>
> First, create the desired directories in /data, and then:
> 
> cd /usr
> ln -s /data/usr/sap sap
>> /sapmnt/<SID> becomes /data/sapmnt/<SID>
> mkdir /sapmnt
> cd /sapmnt
> ln -s /data/sapmnt/<SID> <SID>
>> /usr/sap/trans becomes /data/usr/sap/trans
> This one will follow automatically with the first one.
>>
>> For the Oracle database we would like to use for example:
>>
>> /oracle/<SID> becomes /data/oracle/<SID>
> I think you've already got the picture by now.
>>
>> Will this work???
>> Are there any problems to be expected?
> The only thing I can think of is filesystem checks failing in the 
> installer. I do not know whether these can cope with softlinks.
> 
> My linux testdrive minisap gave no problems, but then again, that cannot 
> be compared to a full size installation.
> 
> Jur
> 

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