Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 08:21:09 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> Cc: Thomas Mueller <mueller6722@twc.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can I recreate my .snap directories ? Message-ID: <5dd4f68d-d99a-4ab7-a217-76b9fee372e7@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <20190625071232.b01cecfc.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <2214.1561413756@segfault.tristatelogic.com> <CAHu1Y702UxMiFURL56-CrLUz%2B4SEPLirsYZXBz1B8=_x6rWUKw@mail.gmail.com> <5d11700c.1c69fb81.56ede.4e36SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> <CAHu1Y73uGs4TZ0Kcio00f0nmLxtCEQkfeUwX_o9jr3bwO7haYw@mail.gmail.com> <20190625071232.b01cecfc.freebsd@edvax.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 25/06/2019 06:12, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:34:48 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
>> There will be one per filesystem, provided those filesystems support
>> snapshots.
>>
>> If you see only /.snap, you have one big filesystem. That's okay for toy
>> systems, or laptops, but you really want separate filesystems for /var,
>> /tmp (which may be a tmpfs), and /usr.
>
> Is this still the case?
>
> Don't get me wrong - I've always been a fan of functional partitioning,
> especially to stop misbehaving processes to mess up the whole system
> ("disk full, can't even write error log") as well as using features
> such as noexec on "untrusted user filesystems". With ZFS of course,
> this is all a lot easier, but with UFS, do people still use functional
> partitioning instead of "putting everything into one big / because
> that's how you do it today"?
I mostly use ZFS these days, but when using UFS I still use functional
partitioning. This may just be inertia and habit on my part as I started
using Unix back on the 6th Edition when disk sizes made it such
partitioning necessary, but I tend to prefer /tmp and /var to be
separate from /, even if /usr isn't.
--
What do we want?
A time machine!
When do we want it?
Errm ...
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?5dd4f68d-d99a-4ab7-a217-76b9fee372e7>