On 2019/11/07 11:15, Craig Skinner wrote: > On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 13:41:07 +0100 Renaud Allard wrote: > > Given the amount of people which encrypt /home directory on their > > servers, it might be useful to be able to define another directory for > > the sets in sysupgrade as /home_sysupgrade will not be available in that > > case. > > How about /var/cache/sysupgrade/ as the default? > > i.e: sysupgrade caches files which are variable over time. > > > Cheers, > -- > Craig Skinner | http://linkd.in/yGqkv7 >
The merits of different filesystems were already discussed when choosing the current default - disklabel auto layout usually leaves a fair amount of space in /home, reduces risk of running out of space in a fairly import system fs, and avoids consuming space on an fs where files are unpacked during the upgrade install.
