On 8/20/07, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote: > I will *not* give a user the ability to fill up my root slice. I do create > /export/home and I'd like to hear reasons/suggestions/doctrine or dogma > about why I would not do such a thing.
The problem is that by splitting the storage into two chunks, you invariably size them wrong so that one fills up while the other has free space. So you make it more likely that you'll run out of space. (That's the generic "you". I'm sure that in certain controlled cases the specific "you" could guess the right answer more often than the average user.) That's with UFS or similar of course. With pooled storage (or anything that supports resizing both smaller and larger) all those arguments go away. Even with the system and user data in the same pool, I would create separate zfs filesystems which allows you to set different policies per filesystem. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
