On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 04:35:30PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Brian Hechinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > >>This is not a purely Solaris phenomenon, this is a UNIX phenomenon. > >>People who run Linux or OSX (I can't speak for Windows users) tend to > >>be "new to the game" and feel that "This 40/80/500GB disk will never > >>fill up" and so don't believe that seperating /var is needed. > > WIth ZFS boot, the point is moot.
Actually, it's not. ZFS doesn't magically make your disks not run out of space. Even with ZFS Boot you can still run your / or /var out of space. If you think otherwise, you are only fooling yourself. > We can only hope that ZFS boot will consign this never ending layout > argument to the dust of history. The layout of disks and filesystems will always be a personal preference and will never go away. You are likely to never agree with the way I feel servers should be setup, and I'll likely never agree with the way you feel servers should be setup. -brian -- "Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of pop tarts and pancake mix." -- IRC User (http://www.bash.org/?841435) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
