Nathan Kroenert wrote: > I'd expect it's the old standard. > > if /var/tmp is filled, and that's part of /, then bad things happen. >
Such as? If you find a part of Solaris that cannot deal with a full file system, then please (pretty please... with a cherry on top) file a bug. > there are often other places in /var that are writable by more than > root, and always the possibility that something barfs heavily into syslog. > > Since the advent of reasonably sized disks, I know many don't consider > this an issue these days, but I'd still be inclined to keep /var (and > especially /var/tmp) separated from / > > In ZFS, this is, of course, just two filesystems in the same pool, with > differing quotas... > I agree. If there is a need for different policies (compression, quota, etc.) then it might make sense to have different file systems. OTOH, this complicates your ability to backup/restore the system, so you need to look at all of the implications of doing so. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
