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On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:00:50PM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote |
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> Am Sonntag, 2. September 2007 schrieb Neil Bothwick: |
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> > One disadvantage of your system that springs immediately to mind is |
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> > that if a user manages to fill /home, it will stop the whole system |
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> > working properly because /var is also full. |
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This setup is for a desktop PC that has "a user" not "a bunch of |
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users". I am *NOT* running a server with a bunch of users. If I was, |
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I'd be using quotas to prevent the problem described above. |
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> Another one is filesystem corruption, or even human error. Placing |
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> everything into one single filesystem is a Bad Thing (tm). I.e. you |
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> can't mount vital parts of the system ro to prevent accidental |
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> deletion, or keep data or home volumes safely unmounted until they |
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> are really needed/accessed (by use of the automounter), |
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a) I'm running a home desktop PC, not a corporate server. If the |
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"users" (i.e. me) can't co-ordinate with each other, then I've |
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got a badly split personality<g> |
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b) I have the system backed up on a 320 gig external USB drive |
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c) "automount" problems seem to crop up often in this list |
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d) more partitions means more things to go wrong |
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> you can't use different filesystems for different purposes, etc. |
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You mean like ext2fs for a small rarely-written-to partition and |
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reiserfs for a gigantic partition with lots of files? |
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> Kids, don't try this at home :-) |
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On the contrary, do this at home, but think twice before trying it on |
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a corporate server. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 |
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Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? |
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A. I think it would be a good idea. |
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