From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 23: 8:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matjes.koerber.org (matjes.koerber.org [203.127.219.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4860A37B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:08:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from vademecum (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by matjes.koerber.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id eAC78gu16792; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 15:08:43 +0800 From: "Mathias Körber" To: "Greg Lehey" , "Mathias Körber" Cc: Subject: RE: More partitions on a single slice? Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 15:08:38 +0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20001112172152.M802@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm attaching a draft of the corresponding text from the coming fourth > edition of "The Complete FreeBSD". This isn't set in stone, and > detailed comments are welcome. thx, I'll have a look. > The /home *hierarchy is* for users. It doesn't have to be the same as yes, but symlinking /usr/local to /home/local is ugly. It encroaches on the diskspace set aside for users own (personal) files. > BTW, note that /usr is *not* for users. That shows fairly clearly how > things have changed over the years. Yeah, I remember SVR2 :-) > > I like partitioning off this data to prevent eating others' (other > > users', applications' etc) space. If I use symlinks this happens = more > > easily. >=20 > That's what quotas are for. Quotas apply on a per user basis, not on a per-application basis. If I have several users working on the same application etc, I'd have to restrict them separately for this (and if the app lived on the same FS as eg /home, then I'd simultaneously restrict them in their /home, as quotas are only as granular as your filesystem). > Agreed, servers are a special case (and yes, I've seen laptop based > servers :-) In any such case, you need to consider exactly what you're > doing, based on actual and expected load amongst other things. But why then have this arbitrary restrictions in the first place? mathias To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message