From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 18 14:46:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D69DE1065673 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:46:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com) Received: from mail.r-bonomi.com (mx-out.r-bonomi.com [204.87.227.120]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9008FC13 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:46:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from bonomi@localhost) by mail.r-bonomi.com (8.14.4/rdb1) id q1IEp6L5076072 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:51:06 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:51:06 -0600 (CST) From: Robert Bonomi Message-Id: <201202181451.q1IEp6L5076072@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: One or Four? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:46:14 -0000 > From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Feb 18 01:59:53 2012 > From: Doug Hardie > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:54:36 -0800 > To: Robert Bonomi > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: One or Four? > > > On 17 February 2012, at 23:21, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > >> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Feb 17 19:56:00 2012 > >> From: Doug Hardie > >> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:50:44 -0800 > >> To: FreeBSD Mailing List > >> Subject: Re: One or Four? > >> > >> > >> On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: > >>> We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style default > >>> with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and > >>> swap. > >> > >> > >> I only run servers and set them up with /, /usr, and swap. Other partitions > >> are placed on other disks with typically one partition per disk. I link /var > >> and /tmp into /usr. > > > > That last is a *BAD*IDEA*(tm). There _are_ programs that assume that /var/tmp > > and /usr/tmp are *different* places -- and will attempt to create 'distinct' > > files _with_the_same_name_ in the two diretories. > > I am sure you can find programs that presume anything you want. I have never > seen one that does that. If I did find one, it would be easy to correct that > misguided thinking. "Those who are unwilling to learn from history are doomed to repeat it" applies. I state as a fact that I have been called in -- *more*than*once* -- to attempt to recover data that had been trashed as a result of what was eventually determined to be that specific issue. As for your claim of it being 'easy to correct that misguided thinking' -- that is an outright lie, when one is dealing with COTS software for which one does not have the source-code. There is also the 'minor' matter of establishing that 'that' -was- the cause of the problems.