From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 13 23:50:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD1AA16A41F; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:50:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp1.server.rpi.edu (smtp1.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F48B43D45; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:50:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp1.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j8DNoLRJ006984; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:50:22 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <200509110310.36423@harrymail> <43255152.3000609@freebsd.org> <20050912165518.GA94181@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050913125820.GA10663@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:50:20 -0400 To: Marcel Moolenaar , Alexey Dokuchaev From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.1 Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:50:24 -0000 At 8:29 AM -0700 9/13/05, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >On Sep 13, 2005, at 5:58 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: >>AFAIK, we still do not turn softupdates on /, but do on other >>partitions. With your proposed idea, softupdates should be >>on on /. How safe is this today? > >I never use separate partitions for /usr and /var on my scratch >boxes and I always enable SU on /. I can't say I've ever had any >problems. Just as another data point: I do *not* have a separate partition for /usr and /var (*), so my '/' partitions are similar in size to the standard setup. On two machines that I can quickly check here, I have a 300-meg '/' on one, and a 470-meg '/' on the other. My other systems probably have a smaller root partition, because these two machines are my two most-recent builds. I have been running with softupdates enabled on '/' for a long time, and as far as I know it hasn't caused me any problems since maybe 5.2.1. It did used to cause me occasional problems a few years ago, but I can't remember any recent problems. I must admit I'm a little uneasy moving /usr and /var into '/', just because I'm so used to the way it is. I really *like* having /var as a separate partition. But hard disks are huge compared to how they used to be, so I don't mind having a 500-meg '/'. I *do* save the kernel.debug information in my /boot/kernel's, and my root partition is still under 50% full. (* - Except for my PowerPC machine... That machine has everything in '/' except for one large empty partition on '/usr/obj', and a memory-disk partition sitting on /tmp_md ). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA