From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
Subject: [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:45:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8E4D7C90-58E1-4860-BBEB-040A5C765DBE@tfeb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120201121214.55c73577@cnb.csic.es>
On 1 Feb 2012, at 11:12, Jose R. Valverde wrote:
> This is something obvious to anyone maintaining a multi-user server, only
> presumptuous single-user windows toyers think they know better.
If only this were true. Until reasonably recently (may be a couple of years ago was the last time I cared), a major Unix vendor's recommendation was not to have separate /var, because that was "old fashioned" (I assume). Some of their installation / upgrade programs would fail if you did in fact. For additional amusement, the default install would put no limit on the size of the memory-based /tmp filesystem. So basically anything on the system could fill / with all the undesirable consequences that has, and also eat the system's memory in an unpleasantly persistent way.
--tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-02 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-31 19:16 A. P. Garcia
2012-01-31 19:27 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-01 11:12 ` Jose R. Valverde
2012-02-01 17:35 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 13:32 ` Random832
2012-02-02 17:24 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 17:36 ` John Cowan
2012-02-02 18:10 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 21:14 ` Dave Horsfall
2012-02-02 21:49 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 22:29 ` Tim Newsham
2012-02-02 22:47 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 22:59 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-02 23:33 ` Warner Losh
2012-03-13 16:09 ` [TUHS] ASR 37 teletype desired by LCM / Vulcan.com John Foust
2012-02-02 22:53 ` [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-02 23:35 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-03 11:10 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-02-03 15:22 ` Jose R. Valverde
2012-02-03 16:06 ` Ronald Natalie
2012-02-03 16:09 ` Steve Nickolas
2012-02-02 17:40 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 18:02 ` Tim Newsham
2012-02-02 13:45 ` Tim Bradshaw [this message]
2012-02-01 9:26 arnold
2012-02-02 13:35 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-02-02 13:49 ` Larry McVoy
2012-02-02 23:16 Norman Wilson
2012-02-02 23:37 ` Carl Lowenstein
2012-02-02 23:58 ` John Cowan
2012-02-04 19:34 Pepe
2012-02-04 21:05 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-05 8:38 Hendrik Jan Thomassen
2012-02-05 10:13 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2012-02-05 17:15 ` Warner Losh
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