[indiana-discuss] Default Partitions sizes

[Brandorr]

On 10/4/07, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...

I think because hostorically /usr can be a read only file system that
is shared by multiple hosts.

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