> > swap would be on there. That's granted, one needs > swap. > > Not really. The system works fine without it. You > just can't dump > and if you run out of RAM -- tough.
Exactly. Which is why one more or less needs the swap slice. > For that matter, you can swap to a file instead of to > a dedicated > slice. Yes, but the performance is worse. > Agreed; the current default layout is pretty useless > and wrong for LU > users. And for that reason, there would be no change of state of affairs with the default layout of / swap and /export/home; I'm simply suggesting that /export/home be done away with as a separate slice (not that it should go away alltogether). > Otherwise, you'll be forcing LU to copy around your > user data and > third-party applications between boot environments, > and that may not > necessarily be what you want. It'll be slow and > (obscurely) break > things if you have any sparse files. Yes, but that warrants modification of the default layout anyway. Whether that default layout is what it is today or some other layout is irrelevant, modification would have to be performed anyway to accomodate for LU. My proposal does not affect LU in any way, as the user would still have the option to slice up the disk at will, just as one does now. This message posted from opensolaris.org
