Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 20:16:12 +0200 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com>, soc-andrew@freebsd.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap Message-ID: <200508062016.20510.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <42F4F979.7080705@gamersimpact.com> References: <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org> <42F4F446.90304@freebsd.org> <42F4F979.7080705@gamersimpact.com>
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--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--
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