From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Dec 7 15:26: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from inje.iskon.hr (inje.iskon.hr [213.191.128.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3831037B416 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:25:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from tel.fer.hr (zg06-179.dialin.iskon.hr [213.191.148.180]) by mail.iskon.hr (8.11.4/8.11.4/Iskon 8.11.3-1) with ESMTP id fB7NPQO17105; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 00:25:27 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3C114FDF.138E09A7@tel.fer.hr> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 00:25:19 +0100 From: Marko Zec X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: Matthew Dillon , Sheldon Hearn , Kirk McKusick , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems References: <31807.1007732134@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200112072257.fB7MvjE95211@apollo.backplane.com> <200112072311.fB7NB2723789@whizzo.transsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 "Louis A. Mamakos" wrote: > While we're gonna be changing the default file system characteristics, > how about having sysinstall create a reasonable size root file system > for today's disks? I think that if we're installing on a multi-gigabyte > disk, a 200MB root file system isn't imposing very much. Why would we want to do that? Putting unnecessary things on / is always a bad idea, as root partition should remain small and as free of frequent RW operations as possible. I would prefeer to see /tmp extracted from root fs (as a mfs by default), much more than seing a huge / with lots of garbage in it. Root should remain compact as it is more or less right now. Marko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message