On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 04:01:28PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
A survey could be useful for Fedora 25+ but in that case I'd be
curious at least as much about what sysadmins don't know. For example,
I've yet to hear a sysadmin suggest quotas for var or opt instead of
separate partitions. Have they used quotas? Why not? Separate var opt
may be common, but that doesn't mean it's optimal.
I know it's just an example, but I can't resist giving personal
feedback. :)
Some of it may come down to "linux quotas are a pain to manage". So
more resources for making that better might indeed help.
But, also, /var is a combination of users-filling-up space and root
doing it, and the latter is usually not constrained by quotas. Too many
sysadmins woken in the middle of the night because some out-of-control
log file wedged things up. :) And even if a quota were applied to them,
as far as I know, journald's heuristics for space usage work on the
filesystem level and don't check quotes.
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Matthew Miller
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