Paul Goyette wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2022, Simon Burge wrote: > > > Do we have any valid need to have non-critical local filesystems? > > Well, I have a dedicated filesystem for builds, separate from my > OS. The /build happens to be my nvme SSD. > > Building (or being able to build) is not critical to having the > machine running (and receiving mail). > > So, yeah, I think non-critical local filesystems are meaningful.
Again we come to what "critical" means. If you have your /build in your /etc/fstab, you boot will still fail if you can't mount that filesystem (right)? "critical" in the current context is "should be mounted earlier than other filesystems", originally for a separate /usr and then later tweaked for /var. > FWIW, I cannot spell zfs! :) Neither could I until last year :) Cheers, Simon.
