One or Four?

[Douglas Carmichael]

I would prefer having the option of four partitions for fault tolerance reasons if needed.

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On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Devin Teske <devin.teske at fisglobal.com> wrote:

> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Swiger
>> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:18 PM
>> To: david.robison at fisglobal.com
>> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: One or Four?
>> 
>> On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote:
>>> We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style default
> with 4
>> partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and swap.
>> 
>> For a user/desktop machine, I prefer one root partition.  For other roles like
> a
>> server, I prefer multiple partitions which have been sized for the intended
> usage.
>> 
> 
> Then does the question ultimately become...
> 
> "Shall we then have two algorithms and ask the user whether they are installing
> for the desktop versus server?"
> 
> If that's the case, then I think this is something I could personally live with
> (as it then becomes possible to obtain the old layout of 4 partitions with
> auto-calculated sizes ala Colin Percival's last sizing algorithm committed in
> version 1.149 of src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c made pre-SVN 6 years 6 months
> ago).
> 
> See
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/Attic/label.c?rev=
> 1.149;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup
> 
> The above link describes the partition scheme that I and colleagues seek-most to
> return to FreeBSD 9.x and higher.
> 
> I argue that Colin's algorithm is still useful for servers and is still the
> preferred method of allocation for servers and thus should remain an option,
> even if we don't change the [new] default back to the above linked-to scheme.
> -- 
> Devin
> 
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