Re: ReiseFS vs XFS
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Brendan wrote:
> On Monday 26 September 2005 05:44 pm, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Brendan wrote:
> > > On Monday 26 September 2005 11:27 am, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Daniel Garcia wrote:
> > > > > Why is it interesting to have a different partition
> > > > > for / and for /home? I have never seen the point in a
> > > >
> > > > So that your / is as static as possible. And decoupled from about as
> > > > much as possible. The first time you have problems with memory or
> > > > disks, you will understand.
> > >
> > > Who cares about / if your personal data is trashed in /home?
> >
> > I, for one. /home is on backup. So is /, but it gets far easier to
> > restore if / is still good.
>
> That's JUST you. I backup / as well, so...
Please explain to me why should I NOT care that I can still remote connect
through the serial console to a system where /home, /usr and /var is hosed,
but / is still OK so it is trivial to rebuild from backup?
Not to mention it is easier to install anoter system over, etc.
"anecdotes" (sic). Hah.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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