[nycbug-talk] Never mind

[Isaac Levy]

Hey All,

On Aug 5, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Jim Brown wrote:

> Other layouts anyone?
>

Yeah, but throwing in .02$ on MacOSX mount point scheme- looking at  
the problem from a fundamental perspective:

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Basically, Apple threw out the slicing conventions alltogether- and  
simply focused on protecting various directory trees using  
permissions, (and now acl's etc...), which we do on other BSD's in  
the first place.

With that, seeing as a modern filesystem, (Journaled HFS+ on OSX),  
disk fragmentation is not an issue as it was in the past, so that  
aspect of the reasons for partitioning is now moot.

Secondarily, in the context of a widely mixed-use, mixed-context  
computer, (a User Desktop/Workstation), the applications run are  
quite varied in behavior, resource needs, etc... so problems like  
this browser issue are not really problems- (you have the whole disk  
to use, and lots of visual/graphical/ui indicators for how much file  
space you have on deck...)

So with that, there's also little risk, in many User/Desktop  
contexts, of resource-based attacks which can't be solved by a user  
easily- (deleting files when HD is too full...), so while I'll follow  
rigid partitioning schemes on a server connected to the www, it  
doesn't seem to be the same issue at all to me on my Laptop.

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What does everyone else think of this?  Does anyone run another *BSD  
as a desktop/laptop/workstation OS and simply live in one big /  
partition?  UFS has fairly sophisticated schemes for suppressing disk  
fragmentation, (actually, BSD OS really nailed this issue in the  
filesystem years ago), so what does everyone think?

Run wild withone big / (!?!?)

Rocket-
.ike