Hi

There is a good reason to split some directories.
/home if set on / fs then any user can fill up your / fs and fail the
server.
/var might fill up very quickly in different logging bursts or application
errors or loops and fail the entire server. No matter how much free space
its got
Same for /opt /tmp etc...
You want to make sure nothing will write logs/data to your / fs.
It is not a nice situation to have a full / fs.
Sometimes it easy to recover and some times it is a real pain.

I always split them up.

Another thing is that you really need to use hyperpav with a one disk
config. z/VM hyperpav is not enough. You need it inside your linux as well.

Offer Baruch
On Dec 19, 2014 1:24 AM, "Mark Post" <[email protected]> wrote:

> >>> On 12/18/2014 at 09:32 AM, "Levy, Alan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Does it make sense in just setting up one mod 29 (32000+ cylinders, app
> 21G)
> > and let the btrfs use the whole thing instead of breaking it up into
> smaller
> > pieces (var, opt, home, etc) ?
>
> Without anything to back this up, my concern is that having everything on
> one virtual device number might cause I/O performance problems.  Hopefully
> someone who does performance analysis for a living is looking at various
> layouts and will talk about their results.
>
>
> Mark Post
>
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