Re: Sysadmins

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 21:26 +0100, Emmanuel Colbus wrote:
> Additionnaly, adding disks is a strategy which has limits; and current
> system design doesn't make that easy to do at all : for example, if accounts
> are stored on the same partition, splitting them can be difficult (problems
> include eg. hard links, user scripts (because their $HOME would change), 
> some administration scripts, etc...).

Oh yes. Partitions were a bad idea from the beginning. EROS, at least,
doesn't suffer from this problem.

shap