Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:18:27 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unifying partitions (was: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk) Message-ID: <20050915081826.GB40237@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050914183720.P57836@fledge.watson.org> References: <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <200509110310.36423@harrymail> <43255152.3000609@freebsd.org> <20050912165518.GA94181@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050913125820.GA10663@FreeBSD.org> <F74CCD5E-AD4C-4343-9626-5F6460C4D6C6@xcllnt.net> <p06230916bf4d11bb5363@[128.113.24.47]> <20050914100957.L33820@fledge.watson.org> <20050915001228.GC38674@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 2005-Sep-14 18:39:40 +0100, Robert Watson wrote: >I agree though that what current and past state of the art has supported >is narrowing our thinking. If we were using a system like AFS ... AdvFS is also good at this. Without a SAN backend, it's really nice to be able to migrate data from a 4GB disk to a 36GB disk without any outage. It would be _really_ nice if someone managed to implement the equivalent of addvol and rmvol in UFS. On Thu, 2005-Sep-15 09:42:28 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >partition. But most people create a separate /var, usually too big or >too small, because that's the way it's done. I've found the requirements on /var have increased significantly over time. >Note also that in this case, an alternative to a separate partition is >to set up quotas. Not that I do that, either. It's still useful to be able to segregate highly volatile data from relatively stable data. Mostly read-only root filesystem is far more likely to survive a serious melt-down. -- Peter Jeremy
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