From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 3 5: 7:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05BC037B687 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 05:07:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12c5dY-000PBE-00; Mon, 03 Apr 2000 14:07:20 +0200 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 14:07:20 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Brad Knowles Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is needed in /stand Message-ID: <20000403140719.A96285@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000401004437.A6904@evil.2y.net> <20000401135701.A11341@evil.2y.net> <38E686A2.BC52FBA3@math.missouri.edu> <20000403123751.B94441@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon 2000-04-03 (12:53), Brad Knowles wrote: > > As has been previously mentioned, a "dummy" /usr/tmp on the root > > filesystem usually handles this. > > If you're going to do this, you might as well make /tmp a mount > point and mount a real filesystem (or an mfs) on top of it later in > the boot stage. That doesn't follow. Some people don't like separate /tmp partitions, and quite a number dislike using MFS for "temporary files". > Either way you end up with the potential that there may be files > stored in the root filesystem "underneath" and hidden by the > filesystem mounted on top of it (thus wasting space), and it's almost > certainly likely to be a lot less confusing if /tmp is an explicit > separate filesystem than if you have a shadow /usr. Yes, this is a problem. Problems do occasionally have solutions though (hacked rc scripts being one not unknown suggestion). It's not 'stupid' to do it this way. There are probably as many arguments against many partitions as there are against few or one partitions, and I certainly don't want to go through those again *grin*. Anyway, I have megalines of documentation to do, consider this my last input to the thread. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message