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   Aragorn wrote:   
   > J.O. Aho wrote:   
      
   >> I never split out /usr/local, as it's always been more or less empty on   
   >> all my installs, /usr/src I did split out when I went to Gentoo. I try to   
   >> split out those parts where you have a lot of writes, as I see it more   
   >> likely that something will go wrong there and don't want it to affect the   
   >> more static parts of the file system.   
   > That is indeed the right idea.  Lots of people recommend the very basic   
   > partitioning layout to beginners, and it may indeed be the simplest thing   
   > to do for a first-time install, so as to familiarize oneself with the world   
   > of GNU/Linux, but I always do recommend split-offs, with the proper   
   > explanations as to why it's better.   
      
   I agree, but you see how distributions and users tries to copy things from   
   microsoft and apple and those don't split up things. Yes, it may be really   
   easy to setup things the first time, but quite many of the newer Linux users I   
   have seen haven't been keen on experimenting, they just been happy with what   
   they got, so they will keep on having one slice for everything and make a full   
   reinstall if something would go wrong when they install a new program.   
      
   Back in the days when I installed NetBSD on my Amiga 2000, you had to read a   
   bit of documentation before you managed to install it and I think thats a good   
   thing, as you get some understanding of the system you are using.   
      
      
   >> I do agree on that too. I think KVM can access file systems via userspace,   
   >> haven't kept so much track about KVM nor Xen, just looked a couple of   
   >> months ago at the wikipedia where they compared a load of different   
   >> virtualization, where KVM was on top when it came to smoth file I/O.   
   >   
   > Well, I'm not sure what would happen if an nVidia driver goes berserk again   
   > - as it often does here, causing X11 to freeze and garbling up the display   
   > once I've killed X11 via the System Request keys, requiring a complete   
   > reboot before you can see anything on the screen again - inside a virtual   
   > machine running via KVM.  I also have no idea of whether the nVidia driver   
   > will even _work_ inside a KVM virtual machine.   
      
   The testing I have been doing with has involved just a simple cluster of   
   virtualized web servers, so haven't had any need of Xorg.   
      
      
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