[COLUG] Partition Size

[Chris Clonch]

On Monday 10 December 2007 9:12:38 Duane wrote:
> Doesn't it get a bit messy doing the whole parts of the file system as
> read only? I thought things were tending to be shifting more toward the
> file ACL level (selinux etc) to achieve this instead?

True, but without spending too much time with selinux, I find it messier than 
splitting the file system.  To me selinux has a higher learning curve.  Of 
course it has it advantages in a finer grain of control than simply mounting 
a fs as read-only.

> As for multiple file systems, this is where commodity single use boxes
> (or Xen) comes into play :)

The picture I had in mind was a MythTV box with using XFS for media file 
storage and scratch disk.  In that case virtualization would be too much of a 
performance hit.  But I guess there really isn't any solid reason you 
wouldn't use XFS for the rest of the system, other than I would naturally 
resort back to ext3 for comforts sake.

So overall I guess I can't come up with any *undeniable* reason to split a fs 
up other than that's what I'm use to doing.  Who ever said *nix guys change 
easily. ;)

-Chris