Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 20:14:00 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>, 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: <20011209041400.28C423808@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200112090359.fB93xTL34741@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote: > Not even freefall.freebsd.org uses /var/users. It uses /<blah>/home > (/d/home, etc...)... essentially /home, so I would hardly call my > use of /home in sysinstall 'non standard'. On freefall, /home is a symlink to /d/home, where everybody's homedir is. > If we look at the 'adduser' perl script (/usr/src/usr.sbin/adduser), > which I did *NOT* write by the way, it presumes /home as the default. > So, again, it would seem that my choice of /home is fairly standard. Yes, Sun essentially set this as a precedent. It is very very widespread. Incidently, I wonder if we're doing this all in the wrong order.. Maybe we should be doing package selections first so that we know what the baseline system space requirements will be. Once we know what is going to be installed, we can make fairly realistic extrapolations about how to size things. Nothing sucks more than having sysinstall bomb out due to lack of space.Maybe we should be doing the partition sizing *last* ? Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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