Aaron McCaleb wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 15:43, Michael Ryder <mryder1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Incidentally... there has got to be a repository somewhere of *nix
> > best practices? ?Is there?
>
> If there is, then as Dave hinted, I would guess at least 70% of the
> information in such a collection is out of date.
I was looking for Best Practices on file system layout. Gone are the
days of separate spindles, and small hard rives, and limiting file
systems to the size of a single tape. Also gone is giving a random drive
error as small / target as possible: smart controllers and RAID greatly
minimises the effects of errors. Even the cylindrical limitations of
boot loaders is passe.
All the Best Practices on the topic I found seemed to be about a decade
old. This was of little help to me.
Taking all those into consideration, we decided on three partitions: /,
/home, and swap. The idea is to eventually move /home to a filer,
leaving us with / and swap.
It feels wrong to do that on a server, but I can't find any reason why
this is bad anymore. I swallowed my distaste, and blessed the minimal
partitioning scheme (we were using up to thirteen defined partitions,
plus one for disk as we placed a swap on every spindle we could).
In before:
/var: logs go to central log server, rotated out on local systems
quickly
/var/tmp & /tmp: tmpfs
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