Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd
121 Merrindale Drive Croydon South 3136 Victoria Australia T: +61 3 9761 5050 F: +61 3 9761 5051 E: [email protected] On 01/04/14 11:06, Ian Collins wrote: > Tom Robinson wrote: >> On 01/04/14 08:56, a b wrote: >>> > About „the one big partition“ thing: >>> > It is the system partition. You should add a second data disk for all >>> > your stuff (that will >>> automatically get formatted and mounted at /data). >>> >>> I will never understand why people just keep making arbitrary di- >>> rectories like /data off of /, when there is a very clear speci- >>> fication which says that /var/opt is for third party data, but it >>> is very upsetting when I see /data or /srv, or anything else ar- >>> bitrary like that. >>> >>> It would be really swell if this were /var/opt by default, like >>> the filesystem(5) manual page says. That is SVR4 and a Linux >>> Standards Base filesystem standard. There is absolutely no reason >>> whatsoever to re-invent the wheel. >>> >> I agree. Following the standard makes sense. When installing packaged >> software there is an >> expectation that the system will have enough space in a standard location >> (e.g. /var/spool/xxx, >> /var/lib/yyy, /var/www, /usr/share, and indeed /opt, to name a few). If a >> database is expected to >> be large, one can allocate appropriately on the correct filesystem location. >> With dynamic volumes >> (LVM, etc.), it is also possible to re-provision more space later. It's not >> about allocating a >> huge disk and hoping for the best. It's about planning and thinking ahead as >> far as I'm concerned. > > Don't forget that unlike on a physical system, in a virtualised environment > "disks" can be thin > provisioned. > It's a good point to remember. Will a thin provisioned system have poorer performance characteristics that one that is not? ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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