From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 16 8:16:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com (aslan.scsiguy.com [63.229.232.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA58837B405; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 08:16:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from scsiguy.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.scsiguy.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fBGGGKg49403; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 09:16:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from gibbs@scsiguy.com) Message-Id: <200112161616.fBGGGKg49403@aslan.scsiguy.com> To: Warner Losh Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:10:14 MST." <200112120510.fBC5AEM33040@harmony.village.org> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 09:16:20 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" 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 >In message <200112120509.fBC59Qk07926@mass.dis.org> Mike Smith writes: >: > However, the argument for /usr is more than just that it is for crash >: > recovery. >: >: It is? Sounds like there are lots of retconned reasons that could >: equally easily be worked around. 8) Has the requirement for the root partition being first in the disklabel been removed? I prefer to have my swap partition as close to the front of the disk as possible to take advantage of the faster tracks. If / needs to come before swap, and / is *huge*, swap gets slower. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message