From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 3 15:27:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 760FB1065672 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 15:27:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu) Received: from mail.egr.msu.edu (dauterive.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 494038FC14 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 15:27:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dauterive (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.egr.msu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5253B77F15 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:08:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at egr.msu.edu Received: from mail.egr.msu.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by dauterive (dauterive.egr.msu.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uvLj42UBrqLI for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:08:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [35.9.44.65] (daemon.egr.msu.edu [35.9.44.65]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mcdouga9) by mail.egr.msu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2E01877F0F for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:08:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4EB2AE5D.5040206@egr.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:08:13 -0400 From: Adam McDougall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111004 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org References: <20111102131311.GA56941@icarus.home.lan> <32C5CE2F-8C1C-442E-A1B4-9DD9FD47C691@sarenet.es> In-Reply-To: <32C5CE2F-8C1C-442E-A1B4-9DD9FD47C691@sarenet.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Default inode number too low in FFS nowadays? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:27:36 -0000 On 11/03/11 05:41, Borja Marcos wrote: > > And the /usr was small because I need a lot of room for /var. The way you've described the issue sounds like it concerns mainly just ports, so perhaps a ports-specific adjustment like below is appropriate and an easy solution for any admin with sufficient inodes available on a partition of their choosing? I am concerned about the drawbacks (performance) of increasing the ratio of inodes on /usr just to accommodate an optional and somewhat flexible component. I've been setting this for many years now even when it is not a space concern on /usr, it keeps my /usr/ports tree clean and puts all the "junk" in a location I can easily clean out: WRKDIRPREFIX=/var/tmp/ports