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Subject: Re: ran out of inodes on /var, recommended value?
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On 9 June 2012 18:38, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 07:22:50 -0600
> Gary Aitken wrote:
>
>> I reconfigured my ssd filesystem with the /var partition of size
>> 512M. =A0Unfortunately, something in portsnap or the ports tree in
>> general uses a boatload of small files, and i ran out of inodes. =A0Can
>> anyone recommend an appropriate size for the newfs -i value? =A01024?
>> less?
>
> portsnap needs roughly one file per port plus one for each
> out of date port during a fetch. There are 23658 ports.
>
> In FreeBSD 9 the fragment size increased, halving the default number of
> inodes. With only 32k inodes it's possible to run out with portsnap
> alone. You can probably get away with the old default of 64k (-i
> 8192), or perhaps 128k (-i 4096). Check how many files you have outside
> of portsnap and do the arithmetic.
>

Or, move the portsnap tree to somewhere other than /var
(see /etc/portsnap.conf for that & such).
I think that a file-backed md* mounted only when portsnap
was in use would save on inodes, yeah?


*I guess mdmfs(8) is the jawns y'all use nowadays, yo?

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