From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Dec 7 15:54:43 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 2181E37B416 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:54:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from tel.fer.hr (zg03-069.dialin.iskon.hr [213.191.135.70]) by mail.iskon.hr (8.11.4/8.11.4/Iskon 8.11.3-1) with ESMTP id fB7NsWO25951; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 00:54:32 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3C1156B1.F44F844B@tel.fer.hr> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 00:54:25 +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: 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> <3C114FDF.138E09A7@tel.fer.hr> <200112072331.fB7NVM724075@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: > I'm not gonna argue that more stuff ought to be put on the root file > system, but having more breathing room also fixes the "running out of > space when installing a new kernel due to softupdates" problem. Or > having space more an extra backup kernel (and modules) without worrying > how close to full you are. My point is if we all get used to seeing huge amounts of free space in /, then we'll all be tempted to fill it up sooner or later with necessary or unnecessary stuff. And then we can go into another cycle of / size expansion, and so on. Right now my 4.4-R / uses 30M of space with a spare kernel image included, and I am not feeling comfortable seeing it enlarged by an order of magnitude in the next release. Those guys doing heavy development and needing multiple kernel/module trees will anyhow make a custom partitioning, and for all other people a compact sized / should be enough. Of course with /tmp extracted :) Marko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message