On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Brian Hechinger wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:18:21AM -0600, Lori Alt wrote: > > > >> Sorry it's taken me so long to weigh in on this. > >> > > > > You're busy with important things, we'll forgive you. ;) > > > > > >> With zfs, we don't actually have to put /var in its own > >> slice. We can achieve the same goal by putting it > >> in its own dataset and assigning a quota to that dataset. > >> > >> That's really the only reason we offered this option. > >> > > > > And thank you for doing so. I will always put /var in it's own "area" > > even if the definition of that area has changed with the use of ZFS. > > > > Rampant writes to /var can *still* run / out of space even on ZFS, being > > able to keep that from happening is never a bad idea as far as I'm > > concerned. :) > > > > > > I think the ability to have different policies for file systems > is pure goodness -- though you pay for it on the backup/ > restore side. > > A side question though, my friends who run Windows, > Linux, or OSX don't seem to have this bias towards isolating > /var. Is this a purely Solaris phenomenon? If so, how do we > fix it? I don't think it's a Solaris phenomenon, and it's not really a /var thing. UNIX heads have always had to contend with the disaster that is a full / filesystem. /var was always the most common culprit for causing it to run out of space. If you talk to the really paranoid among us, we run a read-only root filesystem. The real way to "fix" it, in zfs terms, is to reserve a minimum amount of space in / - thereby guaranteeing that you don't fill up your root filesystem. > > -- richard > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > -- chris -at- microcozm -dot- net === Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes
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