From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 16:31:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C29A537B405 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:31:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 82020 invoked by uid 100); 21 Nov 2001 00:31:40 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15354.62956.134167.912141@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:31:40 -0600 To: "f.johan.beisser" Cc: questions@freebsd.org, jan@caustic.org Subject: Re: Filesystem Sizes In-Reply-To: <67514056@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 f.johan.beisser types: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Graham Lillico 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. > > what you could do, though, is set up a single partition to handle all the > build and source code. this can (if set up on different disks) improve the > amount of time it takes to do a make world. You want /usr/src on one disk and /usr/obj on another for this. > the next issue, is that /usr/ports stores all the port source code in > /usr/ports/distfies. this alone can make /usr/ports bloat in some slightly > unimaginable ways. Worse yet, the default install unpacks and builds the ports in /usr/ports. > > Also how may filesystem are you limited to per disk? And is vinum a good > > option? > to the best of my knowledge, there is no upper limit on partitions per > disk. BSD provides 8 partitions per device. That's enough for most uses. However, you can DOS slices as well as disks as a device, which means you get at least 32 if you only use primary slices. I believe you can partition extension slices, but I'm not sure how many extensions slices you can put in a primary slice, nor how many of the 4 primary slices can be used for extension slices, so I have no idea what that makes the maximum > i don't care for vinum myself. software RAID isn't going to be as reliable > as hardware. vinum just happens to be better than most versions of > software RAID. Why should software loaded onto a ROM - which is what hardware RAID uses - be more reliable than software not loaded onto a ROM? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message