From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 23:36:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B4C937B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:36:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eAC7Yxq03022; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 18:04:59 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 18:04:59 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathias_K=F6rber?= Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More partitions on a single slice? Message-ID: <20001112180459.P802@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20001112172152.M802@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from mathias@koerber.org on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 03:08:38PM +0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 12 November 2000 at 15:08:38 +0800, Mathias Körber wrote: >> 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. That's a circular argument. It only encroaches if you set aside enough space for users' own (personal) files. I'm advocating more space. >>> I like partitioning off this data to prevent eating others' (other >>> users', applications' etc) space. If I use symlinks this happens more >>> easily. >> >> 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). This is possibly a valid counterargument. Can you give a convincing example? >> 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? They've been there forever. I can't remember a UNIX which really gives significantly more than 7 file system partitions. System V has a total of 15, but most of them are special purpose. And I suppose the general feeling is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message