From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 9:16:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-92-93.knology.net [24.214.92.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F7B337B405 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:16:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAKHFix53044; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:15:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:15:44 -0600 From: David Kelly To: "f.johan.beisser" Cc: Graham Lillico , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem Sizes Message-ID: <20011120111544.A53024@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <20011120083608.T16958-100000@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011120083608.T16958-100000@localhost>; from jan@caustic.org on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 08:43:41AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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