[zfs-discuss] To separate /var or not separate /var, that is the question....

2008-12-11 Thread Vincent Fox
Whether tis nobler. Just wondering if (excepting the existing zones thread) there are any compelling arguments to keep /var as it's own filesystem for your typical Solaris server. Web servers and the like. Or arguments against it. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] To separate /var or not separate /var, that is the question....

2008-12-11 Thread Marion Hakanson
vincent_b_...@yahoo.com said: Just wondering if (excepting the existing zones thread) there are any compelling arguments to keep /var as it's own filesystem for your typical Solaris server. Web servers and the like. Well, it's been considered a best practice for servers for a lot of years to

Re: [zfs-discuss] To separate /var or not separate /var, that is the question....

2008-12-11 Thread Richard Elling
Vincent Fox wrote: Whether tis nobler. Just wondering if (excepting the existing zones thread) there are any compelling arguments to keep /var as it's own filesystem for your typical Solaris server. Web servers and the like. IMHO, the *only* good reason to create a new file system

Re: [zfs-discuss] To separate /var or not separate /var, that is the question....

2008-12-11 Thread Enda O'Connor
Vincent Fox wrote: Whether tis nobler. Just wondering if (excepting the existing zones thread) there are any compelling arguments to keep /var as it's own filesystem for your typical Solaris server. Web servers and the like. Or arguments against with zfs it's easy to set quotas so

Re: [zfs-discuss] To separate /var or not separate /var, that is the question....

2008-12-11 Thread Ian Collins
Marion Hakanson wrote: Personally, I'd like to place a limit on /var/core/; That's the only consistent out of disk space cause I've seen on our Solaris-10 systems, and that happens whether /var/ is separate or not. Maybe /var/crash/ as well. You can specify the volsize on /rpool/dump

Re: [zfs-discuss] To separate /var or not separate /var, that is the question....

2008-12-11 Thread Vincent Fox
It just seems like in a typical ZFS root install the need for a separate /var is difficult for me to justify now. By default there are no quotas or reservations set on /var. Okay I set them. I have a monitoring system able to tell me when disks are getting full. It seems easier to say just

Re: [zfs-discuss] To separate /var or not separate /var, that is the question....

2008-12-11 Thread Miles Nordin
vf == Vincent Fox vincent_b_...@yahoo.com writes: vf the need for a separate /var is difficult for me to justify vf now. so long as you keep the word ``me'' in there! great that you don't need it, but it's not difficult to justify. pgp8rJMe1rUqs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [zfs-discuss] To separate /var or not separate /var, that is the question....

2008-12-11 Thread Ian Collins
Miles Nordin wrote: ic == Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com writes: Personally, I'd like to place a limit on /var/core/; ic You can specify the volsize on /rpool/dump on a zfs boot ic system. so what? so you can truncate each core dump to make it useless before

Re: [zfs-discuss] To separate /var or not separate /var, that is the question....

2008-12-11 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello, Slightly off-topic, but only slightly. With ZFS I tend to configure /var/cores as a separate zfs file system with a quota set on it + coreadm configured that way so all cores go to /var/cores. This is especially useful with in-house applications running on servers. -- Best regards,

Re: [zfs-discuss] To separate /var or not separate /var, that is the question....

2008-12-11 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:04:39AM +, Robert Milkowski wrote: Slightly off-topic, but only slightly. With ZFS I tend to configure /var/cores as a separate zfs file system with a quota set on it + coreadm configured that way so all cores go to /var/cores. This is especially useful with

Re: [zfs-discuss] To separate /var or not separate /var, that is the question....

2008-12-11 Thread Richard Elling
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello, Slightly off-topic, but only slightly. With ZFS I tend to configure /var/cores as a separate zfs file system with a quota set on it + coreadm configured that way so all cores go to /var/cores. While this might cause some issues with programs that expect or