I guess I'm missing something here. If you split out all the subsidiary filesystems, what ever changes in / other than the atime of the mount points for the other filesystems? You don't WANT stuff in /, and restoring / is a few seconds work if all the real work is in the subsidiary filesystems. LVM snapshots are pretty cool, but is it worth the pain when (not if) it breaks?
Seems like you get the best of both worlds with Mark's suggested layout. But, your call. -----Original Message----- From: "Mark Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU" <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> Sent: 4/9/08 5:05 AM Subject: Re: What is a good generic disk layout? Mark Post wrote: > > For all you folks out there that keep wanting to put / in an LV, all I can > say is "masochists." I keep /boot in the root file system, and break out > everything else. > Mark, I have always agreed with your point of view, but even I am considering using "/" in an LV to be able to use LVM2 snapshots. Of course if SLES had UnionFS or AUFS, that would work well enough for most files, but LVM2 snapshots are very nice ;-) (What I am looking for is the ability to fall back to a point in time for one or more files or a complete filesystem, without involving complicated & time-consuming backup/restore of tons of data.) mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
