From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 23:20:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2734106572F for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:20:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126868FC0A for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:20:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (p5DCBF599.dip.t-dialin.net [93.203.245.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q1HNJvUH017630; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:19:58 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q1HNN9sv028175; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:23:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1HNMvc3039898; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:23:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201202172323.q1HNMvc3039898@fire.js.berklix.net> To: david.robison@fisglobal.com From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:05:23 PST." <4F3ECF23.5000706@fisglobal.com> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:22:57 +0100 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:20:14 -0000 > We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style default > with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and > swap. I've been doing Unix 30+ years, so there's a tendency to respond "Multiple", 'cos seeing a single 1 partition on a system normaly meant it had been set up by someone clueless or lazy. Though not always, as there could very occasionaly be good reason for it. ... & ZFS now muddies the water. However whichever way ... > Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. No. Bad idea. Not on questions@, the list of the least clued up, the list raw beginners are referred to subscribe to. At least get a majority on hackers@ or current@ or arch@. Some answers one sees on questions@ are very good, but some are ... the other way. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/