From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Dec 11 15:23:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92BD237B416; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:23:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBBNNHs150002; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:23:17 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20011212090610.D67986@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011210124458.B63585@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011208102658.B11428@dragon.nuxi.com> <200112082050.fB8Ko1T01347@mass.dis.org> <20011209164606.C83634@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011209104437.A69671@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <3C141A26.9D8BC688@mindspring.com> <200112110946.fBB9kMM26143@harmony.village.org> <20011212090610.D67986@monorchid.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:23:15 -0500 To: Greg Lehey , Warner Losh From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 At 9:06 AM +1030 12/12/01, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Tuesday, 11 Dec 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > > I suspect, however, that we'll find that crash recovery really is a >> big factor since /usr does get written to on every man command that >> generates a new man page... > >That's pretty seldom. > > $ find /usr/share/man/cat* -type f | wc -l > 3277 In the land of weird suggestions, just how weird would it be to suggest that we create some way for 'cat' versions of man pages to land somewhere else? Maybe /var/man/usr/share/cat* for ones from /usr/share/man/man* etc? I'm not suggesting this, of course. I'm just asking how weird it would be if someone *were* to suggest it... Or is there any other way to get the same effect? (I don't think this makes much difference for the question of corrupted partitions, but I just like the idea of trying to get it so /usr is written to less often. I've sometimes thought I should try this with a bunch of symlinks, but that gets messy given all the different sources for man pages) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message