[KLUG Members] Re: Laptop reiser corruption and fixing it

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Tuesday 29 January 2002 14:30, you wrote:
> "Michael W. Holdeman" wrote:
> > Hmm.... I've never seperated /tmp or /var.
>
> You don't have to.  Just make your / a little bigger to accomodate
> them on a workstation.
>
> /tmp and /var are the most fragmenting of filesystems.  Lots of
> small temporary and/or random writes.  In addition to the
> fragmentation issues, I like to separate them for 2 reasons:
>
> 1) On Ext2/3, they can quickly eat up all the pre-allocated inodes
> before they use up all the blocks, so I usually format them with 1
> node per 2 blocks (instead of the default of 4 or 8).  I also don't
> want their "filling up" to affect my / or other parts of the system.
>
> 2) With lots of writes, its much more of a recovery issue when / is
> being hit with /tmp and /var directory writes.  If I separate out
> /tmp and /var, / is a lot more static.  So there is greatly reduced
> risk of inconsistency on an improper shutdown.
Excelent points. Great information. Thanks


> > Guess there is no reason why I couldn't. I usually seperate
> > /usr and /home, and any non/home NFS exports. (eg.. /ptfd)

Sorry, Just the base Dir of my file servers NFS partitions.

Mike


> What's /ptfd for?
>
> Here's my personal partitioning guide (the one I follow):
> http://www.matrixlist.com/pipermail/leaplist/2001-November/015760.html
>
> > ps (SGI??) I am running SuSE 7.2P, Caldera eD2.4 (kernel
> > 2.4.9), and Caldera server 3.1.1.
>
> I'd only consider XFS if you were running RedHat.
>
> Does Caldera support Ext3 in its installers now (since it is in the
> stock kernel 2.4.15+)?
>
> -- Bryan