Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:43:22 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: rloefgren@forethought.net Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Brad Waite <freebsd@wcubed.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var or /usr for data? Message-ID: <20070825154322.GB71640@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070824192101.Y36415@auden.jmla.com> References: <56712.67.176.75.179.1187816225.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> <20070824081848.F73687@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20070824192101.Y36415@auden.jmla.com>
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:20:16PM -0600, rloefgren@forethought.net wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > >>It would appear that the "proper" allocation of filesystems on FreeBSD is > >>to put all data in /usr. I'm used to this and have been doing it for > >>years. > > > >my favourite "proper" allocation is to make ONE partition (/) and nothing > >more. and forget all problems about how to partition your drive right... > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > I've made a quick look-see through my copies of "The Complete FreeBSD" and > "Absolute BSD" and can't find the reference, but I recall reading > somewhere in my 4.x days that FreeBSD used a different algorithm to write > to the /var directory, if it was on its own filesystem, because /var was > written to a lot (holding logs and all.) Because of this, and all the way > up to 6.2 today, I put /var on its own filesystem, after / and swap. > Where the old AIX wonks used to call the "outer middle" of the disk. Was > this different algorithm really the case? And, now with UFS2, is it still > the case? I still put pgsql/data on /var. I think you may be confusing var with swap. A different algorithm is used for managing and writing/reading swap. I haven't heard of any difference with /var. ////jerry > > r > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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