From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 22:42:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D3C1065695 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:42:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEC8B8FC14 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:42:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.101]) by mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46776AFBC01; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:42:26 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:42:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <48D95A19.8030700@shopzeus.com> <447i91bh1n.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20080924194436.P65305@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080924194436.P65305@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809250042.25231.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Wojciech Puchar , Lowell Gilbert , Laszlo Nagy Subject: Re: dovecot, maildir, UFS 2 performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:42:28 -0000 On Wednesday 24 September 2008 19:49:54 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > i said tradition - because very old unix filesystems (25 years ago.. or > more) was different and sometimes got totally corrupted. 10 years ago (not 25), news:// was hawt. And created tons on small files, by default on /var/news, which is/was one good reason to make /var have a smaller fragment size. The use of /tmp as memdisk is obvious. Having done several major version OS upgrades on different bootable slice, made me appreciate a /home partition. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.