<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/7 - Tethys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tethys@gmail.com">tethys@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>Naturally not. But it seems I come from a bygone era when people<br>
still believed in avoiding unnecessary bloat. I felt (and indeed<br>
still feel) that a 500MB root filesystem should be more than enough.<br>
After all, a root filesystem should contain only what is necessary<br>
to boot the system, and repair it if things go wrong. Hell, even<br>
the FHS agrees with me on that -- indeed it explicitly says that it is<br>
a goal to try and keep the root filesystem as small as reasonably<br>
possible. Sadly, those developing modern distributions seem to<br>
have different ideas :-(<br>
</blockquote><div><br><br>Agree with you there.<br>In fact, I'm sitting in a performance tuning class at the moment - we're discussing filesystems.<br><br>Let's take var as an example - lets say you are running a n NNTP server or a mail server.<br>
You want var on a separate filesystem - probably on a different controller, and certainly laid out in a different fashion.<br><br>Root filesystems - you want two small(ish) mirrored disks.<br><br></div></div><br>