Lisa, I agree totally......but, unfortunately, with a Linode account, I don't have any control over the hardware, just the software. With a Linode account, do I need to partition the drive for a production/public facing Zope/Plone/ and maybe Tomcat server, or just make one big partition as the Linode folks suggested? Thanks! Mark On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > On 4/27/09, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > I am setting up a new server for Plone/Zope sites on a Linode VPS. > Reading > > the "Securing Debian Manual" ( > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/), it recommends > > separate partitions for /tmp, /home, /opt, and /var. I was talking with > some > > of the Linode folks on IRC to find out how to set up separate partitions, > > and they felt that it was unnecessary to have separate partitions for a > > production server (regardless if it is on Linode or not). > > > > I am interested in any opinions on the subject from this list. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Mark > > > > Old partitioning in Linux was required and many schemes existed. > There are as many schools of thought as there are systems > administrators, just like the ext3, xfs arguments. > > It's also been my experience that what is more important (and often > not even compared) is a selection of drive media (SCSI, SATA/PATA, FC) > bus speed, read/writes and patch versions on linux kernel drivers. > > I.E. I have run systems with one HUGE / directory under SCSI that were > screaming fast running the same version of redhat without divided > partitions compared with the same American Micro "whitebox" running > IDE drives that were dog slow. I rarely needed to fsck a partition, > instead losing the the whole drive (due to heat issues, cheap media or > both). > > Now most production systems use a variety of drives, but especially a > fine RAID controller card, over LVM/LVM2. > > -- > www.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 > "Contradictions do not exist." A. Rand > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >