One or Four?

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 2/17/12 11:40 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Robison, Dave
> <david.robison at fisglobal.com> wrote:
>> Hiya,
>>
>> A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as
>> opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD.
>>
>> It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap as
>> such:
>>
>> /
>> /tmp
>> /var
>> /usr
>> swap
>>
>> The recent changes in 9.x with bsdinstall use a default behavior which
>> creates only one partition and swap, with everything living under a single
>> "/" partition as such:
>>
>> /
>> swap
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> This is not a discussion of MBR vs GPT. The default moving forward from 9.x
>> will be to use GPT.
>>
>> We realize that one can use bsdinstall to create as many partitions as one
>> wants. However, the new default is for one partition and swap. We want to
>> know if people would prefer the older style default with four partitions and
>> swap when selecting "Guided Partitioning" and "Use Entire Disk".
>>
>> Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default.
> 
> / and /usr should be merged together, /var should stay separate, and
> /tmp should be tmpfs :)
> 

On topic, have the bugs been fixed where a tmpfs partition would
gradually lose usable size, down to 0kb eventually ?