Some ideas for FreeBSD

[Joshua Isom]

On Feb 9, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 03:51:18PM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote:
>
>> Here's an idea for FreeBSD that would be practical.  Since having
>> several partitions on the same disk is standard for FreeBSD and most
>> Unixes, instead of dealing with running out of space on a partition,
>> when you have gigs available on another, why not allow one partition 
>> to
>> create an overflow file on another partition, or perhaps a dedicated
>
> You can do this alrady.
> Just move some directory tree in to the large space and create a 
> synlink.
> I do it often.
>
>
> ////jerry
>

My idea would eliminate that work around and make it automatic.  Who 
actually waits to constantly look at their disk usage and try and 
figure out if they have enough space left on their 512 meg partition 
when they have 200 gigs free on another?  I think most people find out 
they're low on space when they run out trying to do something on that 
partition.

>
>
>> amount of the swap partition if it's on the same disk, to keep from
>> running out of space?  It'd probably have to be limited to one disk,
>> but that wouldn't hinder things too much.  Dealing with unmounted
>> filesystems would be annoying but probably doable without too much 
>> risk
>> of problems(could even use the swap partition, and on say /usr just
>> have a file for swap?).  The most obvious case of how this could be
>> good would be the root partition when you're updating the system,
>> especially with debug symbols or perhaps multiple kernels(say a 
>> generic
>> debug, optimized debug, generic, and optimized?).
>>
>> The best reason for doing something like this, you can keep the
>> partitions for "disk optimization" and still have the ease of use of a
>> single partition like OS X, Ubuntu, or PCBSD.
>>
>> Maybe this would be good for FreeBSD 8 or 9?
>>
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