[indiana-discuss] Default Partitions sizes

[Sanjay Nadkarni]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> 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?
>>     
It shouldn't be.  That was an error when creating this instance.  It 
would be mypool/exporthome   mounted as /export/home.

-Sanjay

>> 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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