Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 17:52:31 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <15378.46543.229258.473566@caddis.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200112082211.fB8MBGm18685@apollo.backplane.com> References: <49294.1007846108@winston.freebsd.org> <200112082211.fB8MBGm18685@apollo.backplane.com>
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> Not only that, but blowing-out /var/tmp is relatively easy to do even > on a single user system. I've *NEVER* done, and the only thing that's blown out /var on any machine I've ever used is /var/log. That's about 8+ years of experience and 200-300 different boxes. > The last thing you want to see is a full > /var/tmp causing your mail system to throw up rocks because it's on > the same partition as /var. There is absolutely no sane reason to > combine /var and /var/tmp together. Obviously, I disagree. Therefore, I aree with Jordan and suggest that your 'bias' is based on your experience, which may differ from others. > The same thing goes for /home, though in /home's case the reasoning > is somewhat more ephermal. One single-user systems, I create /usr/home, and symlink /home to it. However, that's a personal preference I don't suggest is valid for everyone. One larger systems, I usually allocate an entire disk to /home, but again, that's a personal preference, and one that I don't think should be hard-coded as a good default. (Especially since sysinstall's main goal is to get a minimal system installed on the system.) I think many of the changes you've done are very good. I just disagree that the default partitioning scheme of '/','/var', and '/usr' isn't adequate for a 'base' configuration. As David and others have pointed out, they like monstrous '/' partitions which I shudder to think about when crashes occur. In short, I think we should stick with the current 3 partition base setup for 'automatic', and let others which *really* need more than automatic to create their own, or otherwise extend it to have different classes of 'auto' configurations as Jordan suggested. (Back to my hole.....) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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