[indiana-discuss] Default Partitions sizes

[Richard Elling]

Mark J Musante wrote:
> 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.

No. Start again.  Identify the *policies* you wish to apply, then
create the datasets to match the policies.  Size doesn't matter, unless
your policy includes a quota.

These are some of the policies which are most likely to be applicable:
	quota
	reservation
	copies
	read-only
	recordsize
	zoned
	aclmode
	aclinherit
	xattr
	sharenfs
	shareiscsi
	canmount
	exec
	setuid
	atime
	devices
	compress

  -- richard