[COLUG] Partition Size

[Duane]

Chris Clonch wrote:

> 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.

Well that's not really security, that's just an illusion of security :)

> 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.

I'm toying with Xen having Dom0 do virtually nothing other then handle
the underlying hardware, my theory/idea is if I can get a really really
stable underlying operating system dealing with raw hardware, then Xen
guests dealing with virtual hardware any "crashes" won't actually kill
the box, just the guest, and split things across multiple guests to
limit what crashes will effect.

> 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. ;)

As per my original message, grub/lilo even grub2 don't cope very well
with lvm+raid boot space, and I'm forced to just do raid1 for /boot,
everything else server wise is raid5+lvm although raid6 looks
interesting depending how many drives/dollars you have to play with.

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