> Am 14.10.2024 um 05:28 schrieb Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>: > > On Mon, 2024-10-14 at 00:04 +0200, Peter Boy Uni wrote: >> Server follows the good old Unix principle to strictly separate user >> data from system data, and furthermore separates different user data >> from each other. The goal is to minimize the effects of possible file >> system problems. Workstation gave up this principle some times ago in >> favor of less effort for system configuration and to make it easier >> for less experienced users. > > I'm wondering what *less* user data separation means?
Server puts user data and system data into separate filesystems. In case of filesystem issues they don’t affect each other, you can format each independently from the other. You can umount the user data while doing critical system maintenance to protect user data from any unintended change. „Less“ would be putting everything in one *filesystem* separating them not at all or use a pseudo-separating filesystem like BTRFS. Its „subvolumes“ are by no means independent from each other. These are just kind of „enhanced subdirectories“. Of course, in some cases this strict separating strategy might be an overkill. Obviously, workstation WG considered it an overkill for desktop computers where in most cases there is only one person working on it and owning all data and in (seldom) case of data loss there is only one person affected and not a bunch of different users. And on Servers it could be an overkill in some cases. During installation, therefore there is the option to switch to another filesystem type. You can even easily introduce a BTRFS filesystem later, when there arises a need for it. I’m writing a Server documentation article describing those options. > > World read and execute permissions on /home/username? All users in a > common group by default, with group read and execute permissions? > Something else? No, that’s not a separation but a restriction. :-) -- Peter Boy https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pboy p...@fedoraproject.org Timezone: CET (UTC+1) / CEST (UTC+2) Fedora Server Edition Working Group member Fedora Docs team contributor and board member Java developer and enthusiast -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
