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Date:      Sat, 6 Aug 2005 11:22:33 +0200
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap
Message-ID:  <20050806092232.GA850@zaphod.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org>
References:  <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org>

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On 2005.08.06 01:59:57 -0700, Colin Percival wrote:

> Portsnap keeps a compressed snapshot of the ports tree, requiring
> roughly 50MB and 13000 inodes.  The "natural" place for this to go
> would be in /var/db/, but I suspect that this would cause problems
> for many users, particularly when it comes to the number of inodes.
>=20
> Is this a reasonable excuse for violating hier(7) and putting the
> compressed snapshot into /usr/portsnap?  For reference, the port keeps
> the snapshot in /usr/local/portsnap.

Wouldn't it make sense to put in on /var, and if people do not have
enough space there, they can just symlink the portsnap directory to a
location that has enough space?

--=20
Simon L. Nielsen

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