[indiana-discuss] Default Partitions sizes

[Iain MacDonnell]

Peter Tribble wrote on 10/ 4/07 02:55 PM:
> On 10/4/07, Iain MacDonnell <Iain.MacDonnell at sun.com> wrote:
>> Peter Tribble wrote on 10/ 4/07 02:42 PM:
>>> 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...
> 
> Now I can see why I would want to apply separate policies for user
> data, which is why I expect /export (I guess we're stuck with the name)
> to be a separate dataset. I just don't see how that applies to /usr...

Yeah, I tend to agree, in that /usr shouldn't be changing much after OS
install, so it seems to make sense for it to just be part of "/". Some
may choose to create their own "/usr/local", which whould be easy to do.
/opt and /var are, on the other hand, likely to expand over time...

     ~Iain

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