Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 04:12:49 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>, 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: <20011209041249.D7042@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <200112090223.fB92NKf34327@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20011209003829.C6171@cicely8.cicely.de> <20011209005732.019053808@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20011209025547.B7042@cicely8.cicely.de> <200112090223.fB92NKf34327@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 06:23:20PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Sigh. Well, I guess it was a mistake in believing that you guys > would actually write considered responses to the list (except > for Jordan who while I don't agree with his position, at least > took some time to think about the issue). Lets see, what have I > heard so far? Jordan wants a major generification of the mechanism > (about a 3 man-day's worth of work. At least). Peter and Bernd > are posting their favorite (and apparently extremely complex and > non-standard) partitioning methodologies, neither of which is The *non-standard* is still documented in /usr/share/doc/smm/01.setup/paper.ascii.gz Peters layout isn't that different from that documented and mine. The paper claims different partitions for /usr/src and /usr/obj. Peter, the paper and me agree that they don't belong onto the /usr partition itself. I also softlink them into the right place - usually a network path as I do buildworlds on a single machine for each architecture. What realy belongs into an /usr partition is very static in size: ticso@cicely5# df -k /usr Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0f 183925 132340 36871 78% /usr /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 is network shared so it's impractical to be part of /usr anyway. An 1.5G /usr might be OK for the usual desktop system and if you don't want - well you can always change the size to your needs. But I'm against an /tmp->/var/tmp softlink and I'm against /home because both are non-standard for good reasons. I already explained them in my last mail. If you say /var/home or /var/users and maybe an softlink from /home we can agree for home. That way the realpathname remains in /var, /home can easily replaced with a network volume. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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