From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HlsUF-0007uo-DQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 20:10:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l49K94dh027631; Wed, 9 May 2007 20:09:04 GMT Received: from desiato.localdomain (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l49K4BDZ022254 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 20:04:11 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id B138712AB73 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 21:04:09 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 21:03:58 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off] Message-ID: <20070509210358.29b57e1f@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070509185430.3E0FC8028C@mail.ilievnet.com> References: <49bf44f10705081656s776f28f5kbe497a5326107c2f@mail.gmail.com> <4641FF41.7020000@exceedtech.net> <20070509182835.4c33a0f2@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <200705091953.08629.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> <20070509185430.3E0FC8028C@mail.ilievnet.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2cvs1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_IY7sn2whNTfOPNvn2zdGfwx; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: f8707ccd-d315-43f3-a3ac-eccb38ebd233 X-Archives-Hash: 2a7aa2715e0aa2ee0c4ae37c5fc246dc --Sig_IY7sn2whNTfOPNvn2zdGfwx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Daniel Iliev, > Some say it gives performance boost (I'm not sure about it), but more > importantly it gives (partial) protection from file system damage. How > come? The partitions with most frequent writes are those > containing /var /home and /tmp. In case of power failure or system > lock-up the chances are better that a file system not taking writes at > the moment would survive the crash. Following this logic and since /usr > contains most of the programs and /bin & /sbin contain most of the > basic OS, those should reside on partitions with rare writes. You could also argue that /usr needs the least protection from filesystem damage, because it contains no data. /usr can be repaired with a reinstall, unlike /var, /home or /etc. --=20 Neil Bothwick "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin --Sig_IY7sn2whNTfOPNvn2zdGfwx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGQik4um4al0N1GQMRAtgRAJ9NzrA0dSMe/86UL/eAqD/HQDk2zQCg1ZoA r8tS8a59Y9jRba9A4qJzG5E= =g1ry -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_IY7sn2whNTfOPNvn2zdGfwx-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list