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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>,
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Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems)
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On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 05:52:31PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
> As David and others have pointed out, they like monstrous '/' partitions
> which I shudder to think about when crashes occur.

I've never lost my huge / on my main desktop and NFS server.
And since I run -CURRENT, I crash or deadlock weekly (since the past
year) for one reason or another.  Same for my Alpha's with 1.5GB /'s (and
you've probably heard me cry how unstable they have been in 2001 also).

I agree with you that /var/tmp seems to be too controversial.  But there
does seem to be some support for a (A)uto /home, in order to allow better
sizing of /usr (and reduce the only "default" thing that causes constant
writes to /usr).

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