2 Feb
2012
2 Feb
'12
7:45 p.m.
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