Dave Miner wrote: > Kyle McDonald wrote: >> Bart Smaalders wrote: >>> Benjamin Brumaire wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I experienced the new installation process while setting a new >>>> system. >>>> It feels very easy to install Solaris Express Community Edition b87 >>>> and >>>> I think it 's a good thing to simplify the process. But making thing >>>> easier shouldn't make the process inflexible. In Unix-style there >>>> should >>>> be room for modification. Especialy disk layout. Maybe I missed >>>> something but I wasn't able to find a way to modify the default >>>> layout. >>>> In that case I think the simplification process of installing >>>> opensolaris went too far. >>>> >>> Is the problem that you wish to repartition the disk? Note that ZFS >>> doesn't >>> use fixed boundaries for filesystems, so space allocation should not >>> be an issue >>> inside the disk/partition chosen for OpenSolaris. >>> >>> >> Even with ZFS, the installer should let you define which sub trees >> (/, /usr, /var) are separate ZFS filesystems, and set fixed sizes >> (Quotas? Reservations?) on them. >> > > Why is that useful to you? > It's always (even back in SunOS 4) been possible to put the whole install in one filesystem. Why has anyone ever found a use for splitting out any of these?
My reasons are: 1) As little security as it might provide, I prefer to mount /usr read-only. Until / can be mounted the same way, I prefer to keep /usr separate. 2) While I don't need quotas or reservations on / or /usr, I have always found a benefit of limiting and segregating the space that /var is allowed to consume. It's never been a good thing when logs, or spool files consume all the available disk space. If there are other changes that truely eliminate these, then it might not be needed, but I must have missed something then. :) -Kyle > Dave
