Craig Skinner <skin...@britvault.co.uk> wrote:

> 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/

crazy.  not going to happen.

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