From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 6 18:16:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439A416A41F; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 18:16:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B6A43D45; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 18:16:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from p54A3D0EB.dip.t-dialin.net [84.163.208.235] (helo=donor.laier.local) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML2Dk-1E1TDa2rZK-0000DT; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 20:16:22 +0200 From: Max Laier To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 20:16:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org> <42F4F446.90304@freebsd.org> <42F4F979.7080705@gamersimpact.com> In-Reply-To: <42F4F979.7080705@gamersimpact.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3138788.D0vEBXQMaH"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200508062016.20510.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:61c499deaeeba3ba5be80f48ecc83056 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 14:13:51 +0000 Cc: Ryan Sommers , soc-andrew@freebsd.org, Colin Percival Subject: Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:16:25 -0000 --nextPart3138788.D0vEBXQMaH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 06 August 2005 19:55, Ryan Sommers wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: > > Your "rather oldish and rather smallish" /var is four times the default > > size used in sysinstall (256MB is used for /, /tmp, and /var if you have > > a large enough drive). This default results in having ~32000 inodes. > > > > I wonder if it's time to increase the default size of /var again. > > I would agree, even without portsnap. With things like MySQL using > /var/db (if I remember) as the default it might be a way to avoid a few > more mails to questions@ without impacting the normal user. > > Hard drives are pennies to the GB and always getting cheaper; I've been > making 1-5gb /var's for awhile even on non-database servers just to have > a little more wiggle room for logs. > > As a side note, I've always wished we had a selectable list of "auto" > configure options, database server, web-server, minimalist, etc. Indeed - maybe that's a good TODO for the BSDInstaller integration? =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart3138788.D0vEBXQMaH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC9P50XyyEoT62BG0RArlUAJ0aI7r0nsFdzJi/rUHYiRul3yUQhgCfWUJa TgI8BdzNH4eNRZetKrWWHAk= =Y9H3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3138788.D0vEBXQMaH--