From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 6 09:04:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3729A16A41F for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 09:04:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D1A43D45 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 09:04:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.177]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKS00DLZMBY2A40@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:59:58 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKS008XHMBYZNH0@pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:59:58 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IKS00K6NMBXLG@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:59:58 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 01:59:57 -0700 From: Colin Percival To: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" Message-id: <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) Subject: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 09:04:14 -0000 I'm going to be bringing portsnap into the base system very soon, and I have a slight problem: I don't know where I should put the default working directory. Portsnap keeps a compressed snapshot of the ports tree, requiring roughly 50MB and 13000 inodes. The "natural" place for this to go would be in /var/db/, but I suspect that this would cause problems for many users, particularly when it comes to the number of inodes. Is this a reasonable excuse for violating hier(7) and putting the compressed snapshot into /usr/portsnap? For reference, the port keeps the snapshot in /usr/local/portsnap. Colin Percival