Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 13:15:28 -0500 (EST) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: what's a BE (related to Where do user files go these days?) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1411091302260.82075@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <545F7B85.1050900@qeng-ho.org> References: <545ED36B.8040207@gmail.com> <20141109035011.a3fea3b3.freebsd@edvax.de> <545EF01A.8020804@gmail.com> <20141109064453.2451a5ab.freebsd@edvax.de> <545F5AD6.6000404@FreeBSD.org> <545F7B85.1050900@qeng-ho.org>
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On Sun, 9 Nov 2014, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 09/11/2014 12:15, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 09/11/2014 05:44, Polytropon wrote: >>>> Thanks. In every system I can remember, /home was a separate file >>>>> system (when it existed at all), and I didn't see /usr/home in hier(7), >>>>> so I wondered. >> Don't get me started though -- there are worse problems with managing >> what should be in a B.E. and what should not, and trying to reconcile >> all that with hier(7). Much of /var should be part of a B.E., but not >> /var/mail or /var/log or /var/db/mysql. Similarly /usr/local/pgsql >> should be outside a B.E. This leads to all sorts of arcane trickery >> like creating a zroot/var ZFS with canmount=off,mountpoint=/var to >> overlay zroot/ROOT/BENAME/var with canmount=on,mountpoint=/var all so >> you can mount zroot/var/mail from outside the boot environment. > > I'm glad to find it's not just me who wondered about /var and boot > environments. I've got /var/tmp, /var/crash and /var/db/entropy outside the > b.e. as well, although with hindsight I'm not sure about crash. What's a BE? There are no dumb questions, its the people who ask them :)
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