From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 3 17:09:10 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 9AC6C106566C for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 17:09:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CAA18FC17 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 17:09:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so1992339wyg.13 for ; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:09:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JGUcn0AS3a0leL9YB72WLWkqMtxNQrwhiSUK2SrWKkc=; b=BlQL+ZtShU8a3bLzWkNbNvGq8LWsXGtbSu+EeKZVJa+ssvYd2s5B5pvFUcInKPIDni ci/JS5KRB0IJYfmzfKuNBL6pIVWbeBwno28/qCiUS0PbPCpJf3TSsuUflcJc3gUGaapf fcy3cuGsds95w8wYQbc9Ks02gsyTj8s0SNOtc= Received: by 10.216.180.8 with SMTP id i8mr3107684wem.26.1320339651146; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:00:51 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.2.199 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:00:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20111102131311.GA56941@icarus.home.lan> <32C5CE2F-8C1C-442E-A1B4-9DD9FD47C691@sarenet.es> <4EB2AE5D.5040206@egr.msu.edu> From: Eitan Adler Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 13:00:20 -0400 Message-ID: To: Chris Rees Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org 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 17:09:10 -0000 On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Chris Rees wrote: > On 3 Nov 2011 15:27, "Adam McDougall" wrote: >> >> 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 a= nd > an easy solution for any admin with sufficient inodes available on a > partition of their choosing? =C2=A0I am concerned about the drawbacks > (performance) of increasing the ratio of inodes on /usr just to accommoda= te > 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=3D/var/tmp/ports >> > > ... but then you need a bigger than default /var... > > Personally I use /usr/obj and occasionally nuke it (I know we're running > out of inode on /usr, but rm should solve that problem). A dedicated "WRKDIRPREFIX" mdfs can also help. --=20 Eitan Adler