From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Dec 7 15:30:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B4337B416 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:30:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB7NTwY43199; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 00:29:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 00:29:58 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Marko Zec Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , Matthew Dillon , Sheldon Hearn , Kirk McKusick , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems Message-ID: <20011208002958.A43171@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <31807.1007732134@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200112072257.fB7MvjE95211@apollo.backplane.com> <200112072311.fB7NB2723789@whizzo.transsys.com> <3C114FDF.138E09A7@tel.fer.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C114FDF.138E09A7@tel.fer.hr>; from zec@tel.fer.hr on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:25:19AM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:25:19AM +0100, Marko Zec wrote: > "Louis A. Mamakos" wrote: > > > While we're gonna be changing the default file system characteristics, > > how about having sysinstall create a reasonable size root file system > > for today's disks? I think that if we're installing on a multi-gigabyte > > disk, a 200MB root file system isn't imposing very much. > > Why would we want to do that? Putting unnecessary things on / is always a > bad idea, as root partition should remain small and as free of frequent RW > operations as possible. I would prefeer to see /tmp extracted from root fs > (as a mfs by default), much more than seing a huge / with lots of garbage in > it. Root should remain compact as it is more or less right now. One reason: as releases progress the default of the older releases has bitten me more than once. Meaning / was too small. Really funny (not) during an upgrade.. Compact is OK, just make sure it isn't too compact ;) W/ -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message