From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 8 10:52:29 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA07126 for current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 10:52:29 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA07120 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 10:52:25 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA04320 for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 10:52:12 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508081752.KAA04320@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: shared /var for -stable and -current? To: current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 10:52:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <199508081254.OAA11478@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Aug 8, 95 02:54:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1298 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > I would share /var between the 2 versions. There are no changes that > > I have seen to /var files that would effect you sharing this between > > any 2.x release that is not handled during boot. You may want to > > force building all of /var/run/dev.db by rm'ing it before the > > dev_mkdb as that may get confused with device numbers and slice code. > > I would make /var/run (and perhaps /var/log) in MFS. :-) I would _never_ make /var/log an MFS, just what I want, loose all my logs on a reboot. Sure... :-(. > Otherwise, things like /var/run/foo.pid might really become confusing. > For /var/log, you can perhaps work it out sharable (e.g. by having one > machine forwarding all syslog things to the other). You missed an important detail. This is 1 machine booting from 2 different copies of FreeBSD. Not 2 machines booting from 1 copy of /var :-). > Same holds for /var/account, if you're going to run accounting, for > /var/spool/lpd perhaps, etc. Too many things under /var might > consider this unique to a single machine. It is a single machine, just different chants to boot: -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD