Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 22:43:07 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <15378.63979.640344.655672@caddis.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20011208210819.D332@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <49294.1007846108@winston.freebsd.org> <200112082211.fB8MBGm18685@apollo.backplane.com> <15378.46543.229258.473566@caddis.yogotech.com> <20011208210819.D332@dragon.nuxi.com>
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> > 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). My experience is that I'd rather have one humongous writable partition than lots of little partitions. I too often run out of space on the smaller partitions while still having lots of free space on the other partitions that I can't use, so I end up with lots of symlinks and copying of files to free up space as partitions slowly bloat themselves. of little partitions, and now /usr is full because it grew By using one humongous partition I avoid these kind of problems. So, I prefer a big /var vs. a separated out /var and /var/tmp. I prefer a big /usr vs. a smaller /usr and a /home. But, as stated before, this is my personal preference. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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