Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 14:36:45 -0700 From: "Dave Walton" <walton@nordicrecords.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rearranging files Message-ID: <19990902213902.3296.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> In-Reply-To: <19990901124553.A13904@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990901025231.28744.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com>; from Dave Walton on Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 07:50:14PM -0700
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On 1 Sep 99, at 12:45, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 31 August 1999 at 19:50:14 -0700, Dave Walton wrote: > > > > da0s1a / (to be mounted readonly, perhaps) > > da0s1b swap (but you knew that) > > da0s1e /var > > da0s1f /usr (also readonly, perhaps) > > da0s1g /home (quotas enabled, so separate fs) > > da0s1h /where? (app data - mysql, apache, cyrus, etc) > > da0s1d? /music? (mp3 archive - could go in da0s1g, but not > > da0s1h. Needs quota or separate partition, because it'll tend to > > overflow.) > > > > Any nits to pick? > > Well, I'd probably create one file system for /var, /usr, /home, > /where and /music. You're bound to overflow one first. Of course, > with partitions of that size, you need to match them to the size of > your tapes, so you may have some justification in having both /usr and > /home. Hm. I understand the logic, but there are parts of this system that will have a tendency to fill the drive without some sort of limit enforced. Perhaps create a special user for those parts of the tree, set a quota on that user, and use suiddir to enforce ownership of those files? But that would mean having suiddir turned on for /var and /usr, too. Couldn't that cause problems? > I don't see that quotas are an adequate justification. My understanding is that quotas require the system to do a bunch work to keep track of all the files on a filesystem where quotas are enabled. That, and the size of quota.user depends on the number of files in the filesystem. That being the case, it seems quite wasteful of resources to have /usr on a filesystem with quotas enabled. Especially with things like /usr/ports and /usr/src installed. Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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