On 10/21/05, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i can certainly see how this would be annoying from a > > scalability standpoint, but how often are you changing user > > storage limits? it would, however, be most convenient to just > > have one huge-ass partition :). > > > > Annoying from a scalability standpoint? gimme a break. one huge > filesystem is annoying from a scalablility standpoint.
For what little it's worth, I'm with Bob on this. If whatever you're running *must* be on one big partition, scalability will be a pain. Once you fill the partition, you've got to expand it somehow (never a simple thing, even with "PartitionMagic" or whatever). If, on the other hand, your system can deal with many small partitions, making the available storage space bigger is merely a matter of adding a new partition somewhere and linking it in the right place. Even in cases where you do need more space on a partition, it's much easier to move the data to a larger partition if "larger" means "> 100 GB" instead of "> 1 TB". -Josh Tolley
