From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Dec 7 19:31:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2562937B417 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 19:31:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fB83VC1121226; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 22:31:12 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200112072311.fB7NB2723789@whizzo.transsys.com> References: <31807.1007732134@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200112072257.fB7MvjE95211@apollo.backplane.com> <200112072311.fB7NB2723789@whizzo.transsys.com> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 22:31:10 -0500 To: "Louis A. Mamakos" , Matthew Dillon From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Kirk McKusick , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 6:11 PM -0500 12/7/01, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: >While we're gonna be changing the default file system characteristics, >how about having sysinstall create a reasonable size root file system >for today's disks? I think that if we're installing on a multi-gigabyte >disk, a 200MB root file system isn't imposing very much. I definitely think it should be larger, but 200 is a bit higher than I would push for. I'd feel a bit more comfortable with the default at 100 or 120 meg. I would not vote against 200 meg, but if it were me doing the pushing for the change, then I would be pick a number more like 100 meg. Any number between 100 meg and 250 meg would be fine with me, though. The current default is too low, and it's really painful when one runs out of disk space in the middle of a 'make installkernel'... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message