On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 14:42:32 +0000 Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2019/11/07 11:15, Craig Skinner wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 13:41:07 +0100 Renaud Allard wrote: > > > Given the amount of people which encrypt /home directory on their > > > servers, it might be useful to be able to define another directory for > > > the sets in sysupgrade as /home_sysupgrade will not be available in that > > > case. > > > > How about /var/cache/sysupgrade/ as the default? > > > > i.e: sysupgrade caches files which are variable over time. > > > > > > The merits of different filesystems were already discussed when choosing the > current default - disklabel auto layout usually leaves a fair amount of space > in /home, reduces risk of running out of space in a fairly import system fs, > and avoids consuming space on an fs where files are unpacked during the > upgrade install. >
If the installer created a 750Mb /var/cache/ partition, and sysupgrade's cache directory is hard coded as /var/cache/sysupgrade/, would that simply solve the various problems people are having & scripting difficulties? Other tools which cache files in /home/ or /var/db/ could also use /var/cache/ Cheers, -- Craig Skinner | http://linkd.in/yGqkv7
