Rich Teer wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Bob Friesenhahn wrote >> Did you actually choose to keep / and /var combined? Is there any >> > > THat's what I'd do... > >> reason to do that with a ZFS root since both are sharing the same pool >> and so there is no longer any disk space advantage? If / and /var are >> not combined can they have different assigned quotas without one >> inheriting limits from the other? >> > > Why would one do that? Just keep an eye on the root pool and all is good. >
It's the old debate around possibly filling the / partition, should you get some sort of explosion in /var (crash dumps are a big culprit here). IMHO, even though with ZFS making / and /var separate filesystems in the same zpool is trivial, I don't see the benefit - it's just something more to manage and pay attention to. If you have something very large going on in /var (like mail spools, or whatever), you'll be creating a new zpool for that purpose. Otherwise, filling /var can be _bad_ (even if on a different ZFS filesystem), so I don't see much benefit. But, with ZFS, the counter (it's so simple, why not?) is also valid. It's just personal whim, now, really. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
