From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 8 06:22:12 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA28274 for current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 06:22:12 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA28268 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 06:22:08 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA26913; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 15:21:58 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA05684 for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 15:21:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA11478 for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 14:54:08 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508081254.OAA11478@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: shared /var for -stable and -current? To: current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 14:54:07 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508080852.BAA03078@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Aug 8, 95 01:52:00 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 949 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > I would share /var between the 2 versions. There are no changes that > I have seen to /var files that would effect you sharing this between > any 2.x release that is not handled during boot. You may want to > force building all of /var/run/dev.db by rm'ing it before the > dev_mkdb as that may get confused with device numbers and slice code. I would make /var/run (and perhaps /var/log) in MFS. :-) Otherwise, things like /var/run/foo.pid might really become confusing. For /var/log, you can perhaps work it out sharable (e.g. by having one machine forwarding all syslog things to the other). Same holds for /var/account, if you're going to run accounting, for /var/spool/lpd perhaps, etc. Too many things under /var might consider this unique to a single machine. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)