(OT) Mailing list server problems

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On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 04:29:35PM -0800, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> 
> I'm surprised.  I thought reiserfs was long gone.

It was almost immediately deprecated after he was charged with murder.
I know there's a v4 of it, but I haven't used that one.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4

> All our Linux systems are set up using the OpenPKG portable
> packaging system such that everthing critical is under the
> /home file system (/home/csoft/csrelnn symlinked to /csoft).
> There are very minimal hooks into the root file system, the SYSV
> init scripts to start and stop the OpenPKG system, and a half
> dozen lines in crontab.

Ewwwwwww.  To my tastes, that's a misuse of /home/.  Stuff like that
belongs in /opt/ or /usr/local/ or somewhere...not /home/.  :)

I think I need a shower, after reading that.  :)

> On systems with large numbers of users or users with huge $HOME
> directories, we've set up /home1, /home2, ... so we can spread
> their usage across file systems.

Yeah, that's fairly standard, as is the /uX/ scheme.  Same thing.  Just
depends if you're pre-FSSTND or post-FSSTND, pretty much.

See though, you just made a great argument for -not- putting software under
/home/.  What if you want a user named csoft?  That's just asking for
confusion.

> I would love to have zfs, but would have to go to freebsd or
> solaris to get proper support.

Might wanna rethink that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Limitations_in_preventing_data_corruption

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