From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 29 13:44:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from spawn.nectar.cc (gw.nectar.com [204.0.249.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D571214BD4 for ; Sat, 29 May 1999 13:44:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.cc) Received: from spawn.nectar.cc (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spawn.nectar.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2CAEB741; Sat, 29 May 1999 15:43:55 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 X-Exmh-Isig-CompType: repl X-Exmh-Isig-Folder: mlist/freebsd/hackers X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.cc/nectar-rsa.txt X-PGP-DSSfprint: AB2F 8D71 A4F4 467D 352E 8A41 5D79 22E4 71A2 8C73 X-PGP-DHfprint: 2D50 12E5 AB38 60BA AF4B 0778 7242 4460 1C32 F6B1 X-PGP-DH-DSSkey: http://www.nectar.cc/nectar-dh-dss.txt From: Jacques Vidrine To: Joel Ray Holveck Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <86lne8h3gj.fsf@detlev.UUCP> References: <199905271415.HAA10721@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> <86lne8h3gj.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Subject: Re: FS tuning (Was: File system gets too fragmented ???) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 15:43:55 -0500 Message-Id: <19990529204356.F2CAEB741@spawn.nectar.cc> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29 May 1999 at 0:03, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: [snip] > How do people like to set up their filesystems these days? I've heard > of people who like one big fs (not generally usable anymore because of > the 1024 cyl limit), others who like the small root fs and one big fs > for everything else, and some who like separate fs's for different > things. All other things (disk speed, etc) being equal, what's this > groups' opinion? [snip] My $0.02... For the past few months, I've been going crazy with vinum. I have 4 x 9GB storage on my workstation, and I use vinum for everything but /, /var, and /usr. I have about a dozen small (< 650Mb) filesystems, and I often create scratch filesystems for special purposes (such as rolling a release). I like having a lot of small filesystems... I can tune or export them individually, and they are easy to dump incrementally or reorganize. I also make sure that any one of them could fit on a single CD-ROM in case I decide to make an archive of some of them. Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.cc / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message