> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Feb 18 01:59:53 2012 > From: Doug Hardie <bc...@lafn.org> > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:54:36 -0800 > To: Robert Bonomi <bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: One or Four? > > > On 17 February 2012, at 23:21, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Feb 17 19:56:00 2012 > >> From: Doug Hardie <bc...@lafn.org> > >> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:50:44 -0800 > >> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > >> Subject: Re: One or Four? > >> > >> > >> On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: > >>> We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style default > >>> with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and > >>> swap. > >> > >> > >> I only run servers and set them up with /, /usr, and swap. Other > >> partitions > >> are placed on other disks with typically one partition per disk. I link > >> /var > >> and /tmp into /usr. > > > > That last is a *BAD*IDEA*(tm). There _are_ programs that assume that > > /var/tmp > > and /usr/tmp are *different* places -- and will attempt to create > > 'distinct' > > files _with_the_same_name_ in the two diretories. > > I am sure you can find programs that presume anything you want. I have never > seen one that does that. If I did find one, it would be easy to correct that > misguided thinking.
"Those who are unwilling to learn from history are doomed to repeat it" applies. I state as a fact that I have been called in -- *more*than*once* -- to attempt to recover data that had been trashed as a result of what was eventually determined to be that specific issue. As for your claim of it being 'easy to correct that misguided thinking' -- that is an outright lie, when one is dealing with COTS software for which one does not have the source-code. There is also the 'minor' matter of establishing that 'that' -was- the cause of the problems. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
