[geeks] Solaris resiliency to crashing w/full root partition?

Scott Howard scott at doc.net.au
Wed Sep 28 22:13:51 CDT 2005


On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 05:14:16PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > sun recommends one large root partition and a swap partition!
> 
> Indeed.  If one ever needed proof that Sun doesn't know how to run their
> own operating system....

90+% of the time the best mix is /, swap, and user data on another disk.

If I was putting anything else on the rootdisk it would be spare partitions
for Live Upgrade.

I think you'll find that Sun have a fair idea how to run our own OS...

  Scott.



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