[indiana-discuss] Default Partitions sizes

[Mark J Musante]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Iain MacDonnell wrote:

> 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...

Except for the fact that we want, under ZFS, to keep / as small as
possible in order to support stripe and raidz booting.  By putting /usr,
/var, and /opt in separate datasets, it keeps root small.


Regards,
markm