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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:04:33 GMT
From:      bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: INODES
Message-ID:  <395bc82f.4607658@relay.skynet.be>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006221703490.535-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006221703490.535-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>

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On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:08:19 +1000 (EST), Andy Farkas wrote:

>Don't forget that /usr/ports/distfiles holds all the source tarballs and
>can grow quite large... symlink it to another partition...

Yes, but it's usually only one file per distribution. The ports
themselves, OTOH, are a huge set of extremely small files, I guess about
10 files per port. Those are far more likely to cause an "out of inodes"
problem.

-- 
	Bart.


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