[indiana-discuss] Default Partitions sizes

[Iain MacDonnell]

Peter Tribble wrote on 10/ 4/07 02:42 PM:
> On 10/4/07, Sanjay Nadkarni <Sanjay.Nadkarni at sun.com> wrote:
>> This will be a non-issue for Indiana. Our plan for the first prototype
>> release in October is assign the entire fdisk partition  to a zfs pool.
>> It will be set up as a mirrored pool.  A user will have to add the
>> second disk. There will be datasets for /usr, /opt, /export, etc.   Swap
>> will be on a zvol.    I would love to have feedback on this.
> 
> I think what we sysadmins want is just / and /export (assuming that /export
> is where user data goes). I can't think of any reason why I would want
> /usr separate, or /opt or /var.

With ZFS, you should get the "best of both worlds" - i.e. the physical
space is dynamically allocated wherever it's needed, but you can still
apply/alter quotas (on the fly) for each dataset, to prevent one of them
from soaking up all of the space, if you want to...

     ~Iain

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