From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 9 18:38:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B08CE37B41B for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:38:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from peter3.wemm.org ([12.232.27.13]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20011210023818.QDZO5859.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@peter3.wemm.org> for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 02:38:18 +0000 Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fBA2cSs32238 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:38:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C963810; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:38:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) In-Reply-To: <200112100220.fBA2KLh42688@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 18:38:28 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011210023828.15C963810@overcee.netplex.com.au> 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 Matthew Dillon wrote: > (Matt places hands on face and slowly drags them down, with appropriate > sound effects) While on the subject, we could do what VXFS (an extent-based filesystem, vaguely like variable block sizes) does and auto-allocate inodes on the fly. That would solve the fixed number of inodes part of this problem. (Yes, I am kidding :-). Seriously though, I like the concept but I wonder if it would be better query the user.. ie: something like: "(D)elete this partition or (M)erge the space into parent?" Otherwise it becomes harder to delete /home, carve out some space for something and recreate a new slightly smaller /home. BTW#2: I dont think there is any reason why we cant use the 'd' partition anymore, is there? There does not seem to be any leftover magic gunk that maps this onto the 'dos' fdisk partition anywhere that I can find. We may have had a magic 'd' for FreeBSD-1.x or 2.0, but I'm quite sure it died well before 2.1.0. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message