From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 16 12:35:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC7837B417; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:35:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fBGKZVu24030; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:35:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:35:31 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200112162035.fBGKZVu24030@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: Warner Losh , Mike Smith , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) References: <200112161616.fBGGGKg49403@aslan.scsiguy.com> 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 :>: 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 I address this in 'man tuning'. In the very first section I talk about ordering partitions on the disk to take advantage of outer-track access times. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message