Some good things about separate filesystems: 1. some can be mounted readonly, giving better security
2. you can guard against attacks or bugs which fill a particular part of the FS up with junk, eg expanding log files could kill a whole system by filling the whole of /, but if there is a separate partition for /var or /var/log it will only fill that partition and the rest of the fs will be safe. On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:37:24 +1300 Steve Brorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, looks to me as if LVM's solving a slightly different problem in a > sense - that of managing lotsa disks. For most non-server installations > the problem is surely that we want to give all or part of the *one* disk > "to linux" and frankly don't care too much about the further technical > details... > > - steve > > (Having said all this, its probable that LVM *does* solve the problem, > but at the expence (for a sigle-disk box) of adding yet another layer of > abstraction/complexity...) > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Carl Cerecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2003 01:10 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Problems updating a kernel... > > > > > > Steve Brorens wrote: > > > > > > By the way, this whole business of multiple filesystems and > > having to > > > preset the sizes is A Real Pain for users used to any other OS - is > > > there any move to fix whatever obscure archaic reason there > > once was > > > for this requirement? > > > > > > LVM in the 2.6 kernel should be the answer. > > > > google it to find out more. > > > > Cheers, > > Carl. > > > > > ========================================================= > http://www.commarc.co.nz > > (This e-mail has been scanned by MailMarshal) >
