On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Linder, Doug wrote: > Torrey Minton wrote: > >> I'm sure someone has a really good reason to keep /var separated but those >> cases are fewer and > far between than I saw 10 years ago. > > I agree that the causes and repercussions are less now than they were a long > time ago. But /var still can and sometimes does fill up, and it is kind of > handy to have quotas and separate filesystem settings and so on. > > I guess there's no overall crying reason to use a separate /var, but there's > always this argument: it can't hurt anything. Especially with ZFS. In the > old days if /var was a separate partition then you risked making it too big > or too small. But given the flexibility of ZFS, I think the question is > really "is there any reason *not* to put /var on a separate ZFS filesystem?"
Yes. For backup/restore the unit of management is file system. More file systems results in more complicated backup/restore that increases RTO and costs. This was always the Achille's heel of separate /var. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
