From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 5 17:21:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6127914CE2 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 17:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40351>; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:15:56 +1000 Content-return: prohibited Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:19:13 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: make install trick In-reply-to: <199910052302.RAA21667@mt.sri.com> To: Nate Williams Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Message-Id: <99Oct6.101556est.40351@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <000101bf0f78$fbe58b40$021d85d1@youwant.to> <199910052142.PAA05137@harmony.village.org> <99Oct6.084624est.40345@border.alcanet.com.au> <199910052302.RAA21667@mt.sri.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 1999-Oct-06 09:02:12 +1000, Nate Williams wrote: >> In any case, you should not be doing lots of writes to root, so the >> lack of softupdates should not be a problem. > >So, are you suggesting make /tmp it's own disk, otherwise anytime you do >development alot of writes are done to /. I've pretty well always used a separate /tmp partition. I've always used MFS with FreeBSD. This makes the root partition virtually read-only (which has robustness and security advantages). >And, if you do lots of development, then you'll have the same problem on >/tmp as you did on / unless you waste a huge disk for /tmp. :( Solutions: 1) Use -pipe 2) Don't use softupdates 3) Use a RAMdisk (eg MFS) instead of a physical disk (which makes the previous point irrelevant). I don't recall seeing anyone mention problems like this (though they might be on lists I don't read). Peter -- Peter Jeremy (VK2PJ) peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Alcatel Australia Limited 41 Mandible St Phone: +61 2 9690 5019 ALEXANDRIA NSW 2015 Fax: +61 2 9690 5982 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message