Mike Gerdts writes: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Brian Hechinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is not a purely Solaris phenomenon, this is a UNIX phenomenon. >> People who run Linux or OSX (I can't speak for Windows users) tend to >> be "new to the game" and feel that "This 40/80/500GB disk will never >> fill up" and so don't believe that seperating /var is needed. > WIth ZFS boot, the point is moot.
> Why is having a full /var so much better than having a full /? I've > had a number of Solaris systems fail to boot because it can't update > /var/adm/utmpx, but I've never had one fail to boot because / was > full. As best as I can deduce, the "root file system corruption when > it gets full" is a combination of ancient history and urban legend. > I've brought this up on a lengthy thread over at sysadmin-discuss a > while back and have had no one refute my assertion with credible data. > We can only hope that ZFS boot will consign this never ending layout argument to the dust of history. Ian _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
