Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:23:28 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: danh@gelatinous.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and "/" Message-ID: <200012112023.eBBKNSk94297@earth.backplane.com> References: <20001211195028.74138.qmail@cube.gelatinous.com> <20001211121635.F16205@fw.wintelcom.net>
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:Yes and no.
:
:Yes because the delayed deletion "feature" of softupdates may cause
:you to run out of space on / when doing installworld unless / is
:pretty large. I use ~120 MB to get around this, but I may not need
:that much.
:
:No because if your /tmp is in / then tempfile creation and deletion
:will be signifigantly faster which can really speed up applications
:especially stupid ones that use lockfiles in /tmp.
:
:I recommend using softupdates on / as long as you have enough space,
:120-150 megs, with disk speeds these days fsck'ing ~120MB doesn't
:take that long.
:
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:-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
I'll second that recommendation. I always configure 128MB root
paritions precisely so things like 'make installworld' don't
run a softupdates-enabled root out of space. And, besides,
this way I can keep a bunch of kernels sitting in / rather then
just one or two.
-Matt
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