[indiana-discuss] Default Partitions sizes

[Shawn Walker]

On 07/10/2007, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > So it will look something like this:
> >
> > Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
> > mypool/BE1             134G    16G    83G    17%    /
> > mypool/BE1/usr         134G   3.4G    83G     4%    /usr
> > mypool/BE1/var         134G   1.3G    83G     2%    /var
> > mypool/BE1/opt         134G   1.4G    83G     2%    /opt
> > mypool/BE1/export      134G   1.5G    83G     2%    /export
>
>
> Why is /export under BE1?
>
> I'm assuming that BE=boot environment.
>
> There are a couple of things here. First is that I would expect
> user data (isn't that what /export is?) to be independent of a
> BE; second is that the namespace for user data should be
> separate from that for the OS so as to make it easier to
> apply separate policies.

I completely agree, perhaps "syspool" and "userpool" would be the most
appropriate here? With /usr/local falling under userpool perhaps?

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