Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:27:11 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk Message-ID: <0D07312F-7DDB-40E4-A63A-3E00969F5A4C@xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20050914155307.GA32734@odin.ac.hmc.edu> 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> <20050914155307.GA32734@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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On Sep 14, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Brooks Davis wrote: >>> I must admit I'm a little uneasy moving /usr and /var into '/', just >>> because I'm so used to the way it is. I really *like* having / >>> var as a >>> separate partition. *snip* >> We probably ought to move this discussion to another list, but -- I >> remember two very specific occasions where I first realized how >> important >> an isolated /var is: >> >> (1) In about 1995, when I first started using ppp, I discovered the >> hard way that the default logging level was set a bit high, >> and filled >> the entire hard disk with log records in a couple of days. *snip* > > I've also hit cases where the log come in so fast that you can fill a > 1GB /var fast enough that newsyslog never has a chance to compress the > log. *snip* Just so that people realize: what is being described is not an argument for having /var be a separate partition, but really for having /var/log be a separate partition. It's just that the granularity of our thinking is highly influenced by our legacy, even to the extend of it becoming an intellectual jail. I think it's much easier to size a /var/log partition effectively than it is to size /, /usr and /var effectively... Just some food for thought, -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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