[xen-tools] Re: Seperate /home?

[Steve Kemp]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:53:34PM +0100, Henning Sprang wrote:

> You could start with a /home, but quickly end up realizing that users
> probably want much more sophisticated means of partitioning their hard
> disks than having only /home

  Agreed.

> When you start having more disks/partitions than the two we have
> currently, you don't want to export single partitions to the DomU, but
> give it a whole block device, which is partitioned inside (like suse
> and fedora do in their installer scripts).

  Right.

> If you (Steve? Anybody else?) are interested in working on
> partitioning script and config scheme for auto-installers, some FAI
> develoepers are working on this

  To be honest I have little interest.  True it would allow a little
 more flex ability, but the downside for me would be significant.  I 
 like having only a single image to work with, and not having to mess
 around with partition tables.

  For me personally when I want a large /home I either make a huge
 disk image, or add a role script to use NFS mounted storage from
 elsewhere.

  If there is overwhelming desire for this kind of thing I could
 be persuaded, but my initial reaction is to ignore it completely..

Steve
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