Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:12:27 -0400 From: Bill Maniatty <maniattb@cs.rpi.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: maniatty@cs.albany.edu Subject: Default partitioning for FreeBSD 4.0 is BROKEN! Message-ID: <200004131412.KAA36216@cs.rpi.edu>
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Hello All: I posted a bug report about 1 1/2 weeks ago about FreeBSD's default partitioning being broken. If a user wants to install ALL AVAILABLE (and I am installing far short of that) packages in an installation, the default configuration should support that (given sufficient disk space). However FreeBSD allocates too few inodes in the /var file system and the symlink creation phase of the install fails, and it happens late in the installation cycle (after say 8 hours or more of ftping). Unfortunately, this sort of bug diminishes the perceived quality of the operating system, since the impression is that it is the installation tools fault and that such an obvious problem should have been caught by routine testing. (It is especially embarassing since I am pleading with my Sysadmins to consider supporting and installing your fine operating system). As a work around, is there a way to increase the inode allocation using a non default install. I'm sorry for posting this, but I think the bug report was dropped on the floor, especially since we know what the fix should be (would it be easy to put this into the downloadable floppy images?). Regards: Bill Maniatty To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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