From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 8 10:52:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 664) id 8A45414EC4; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:52:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:52:34 -0700 From: David O'Brien To: David Schwartz Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick) Message-ID: <19991008105234.A58223@hub.freebsd.org> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <19991008093430.A17955@dragon.nuxi.com> <000d01bf11b1$5bfca1f0$021d85d1@youwant.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <000d01bf11b1$5bfca1f0$021d85d1@youwant.to>; from David Schwartz on Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 10:20:03AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RC Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > We're talking about the special case of small root partitions, such that > softupdates inability to make empty space available quickly can make the > difference between a major operation's success or failure. > > This is almost impossible on a 1.8Gb root partition. Again why? What's the difference between a small / and a 1.8GB (byte not bit) one? There is nothing here to back this up. Not enough space is not enough space reguardless how much you started out with. > And if you had a 1.8Gb partition with only 15Mb free, the last thing > you'd care about is how softupdates will handle the situation. Why would I be so concerned? If I don't expect to need that 15M then, I've sized my partition just right. Don't put cares in my basket that don't need to be there. More uninstatiated opions. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message