mounts and soft links

Currently we have a disk that has been partitioned into s0 and s1.

In our vfstab we mount s0 on dir0 and s1 on dir1.

E.g.

mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /dir0

mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 /dir1

I was wondering if there are disadvantages to having a single parition s0

that contains a couple of sub directories, then using soft links to those

subdirectories.

E.g.

mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt_point

ln -s /mnt_point/dir0 /dir0

ln -s /mnt_point/dir1 /dir1

I realize that partitioning is useful for preventing the whole disk from

filling up in the event of some mad log file or such. But are there disadvantages

using the soft links in performance or reliability?

Thanks.

[753 byte] By [jot] at [2007-11-26 11:34:55]