On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Richard Elling wrote: > 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?
In addition to the other answers given, I think another reason why this is common among Solaris sysadmins (though its not a practise I endorse) is the fact that we've been around longer than the usual Linux and Windoze "admins". Back when we started our careers, disks were relatively tiny, so one had no option but to split up /, /usr, /var, and so on if meaningful uptimes were to be achieved. With today's huge boot disks, I think the practise is somewhat deprecated. The untrue myth about systems panicing when / can't be written to because its full doesn't help, either... -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
