Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:15:44 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> Cc: Graham Lillico <graham_lillico@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem Sizes Message-ID: <20011120111544.A53024@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20011120083608.T16958-100000@localhost>; from jan@caustic.org on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 08:43:41AM -0800 References: <F132q6DqaJY4kJSFsxf0000b29f@hotmail.com> <20011120083608.T16958-100000@localhost>
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 08:43:41AM -0800, f.johan.beisser wrote: > > i would suggest making a large /usr, and leaving /usr/ports and /usr/src > inside of it. when you're building the world from /usr/src, it drops > everything in to /usr/obj/.. which pretty much renders it useless to > separate it all out on to a separate filesystem. Is very easy to make /usr/obj/ a separate fs. Even easier (and what I do) is to make /usr/obj/ a symbolic link to a directory on another physical disk. Usually the same as where I host /home/ncvs/ which is probably also another symbolic link. This way cvs updates from /home/ncvs/ drive to the /usr/src/ drive and has two spindles seeking in parallel. Then when building /usr/src/ is mostly read while mostly writing to /usr/obj/, once again two spindles seeking. "make installworld" once again pulls from one drive to write back to another. Not that this complexity really matters but has been 10% to 20% faster the few times I've tried benchmarking. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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