On 04/ 6/11 01:05 PM, Richard Elling wrote:
On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Linder, Doug wrote:
Torrey Minton wrote:
I'm sure someone has a really good reason to keep /var separated but those cases
are fewer and> far between than I saw 10 years ago.
I agree that the causes and repercussions a
On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Linder, Doug wrote:
> Torrey Minton wrote:
>
>> I'm sure someone has a really good reason to keep /var separated but those
>> cases are fewer and > far between than I saw 10 years ago.
>
> I agree that the causes and repercussions are less now than they were a long
Torrey Minton wrote:
> I'm sure someone has a really good reason to keep /var separated but those
> cases are fewer and > far between than I saw 10 years ago.
I agree that the causes and repercussions are less now than they were a long
time ago. But /var still can and sometimes does fill up, a
On Wed, April 6, 2011 11:29, Gary Mills wrote:
> People forget (c), the ability to set different filesystem options on
> /var. You might want to have `setuid=off' for improved security, for
> example.
Or better yet: exec=off,devices=off. Another handy one could be
"compression=on" (or a even "gz
On 4/6/2011 11:08 AM, Erik Trimble wrote:
Traditionally, the reason for a separate /var was one of two major items:
(a) /var was writable, and / wasn't - this was typical of diskless or
minimal local-disk configurations. Modern packaging systems are making
this kind of configuration increasi
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 08:08:06AM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote:
>On 4/6/2011 7:50 AM, Lori Alt wrote:
>On 04/ 6/11 07:59 AM, Arjun YK wrote:
>
>I'm not sure there's a defined "best practice". Maybe someone else
>can answer that question. My guess is that in environments where,
On 4/6/2011 7:50 AM, Lori Alt wrote:
On 04/ 6/11 07:59 AM, Arjun YK wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to use ZFS for boot, and kind of confused about how the
boot paritions like /var to be layed out.
With old UFS, we create /var as sepearate filesystem to avoid various
logs filling up the / filesystem
On 04/ 6/11 07:59 AM, Arjun YK wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to use ZFS for boot, and kind of confused about how the
boot paritions like /var to be layed out.
With old UFS, we create /var as sepearate filesystem to avoid various
logs filling up the / filesystem
I believe that creating /var as a
