Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:51:06 -0600 (CST) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four? Message-ID: <201202181451.q1IEp6L5076072@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <F4B12A29-AB3B-42E3-8A8E-8918428B9478@lafn.org>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Feb 18 01:59:53 2012 > From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:54:36 -0800 > To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> > 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 <bc979@lafn.org> > >> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:50:44 -0800 > >> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > >> 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.
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