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Date:      Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:08:13 -0400
From:      Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Default inode number too low in FFS nowadays?
Message-ID:  <4EB2AE5D.5040206@egr.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <32C5CE2F-8C1C-442E-A1B4-9DD9FD47C691@sarenet.es>
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On 11/03/11 05:41, Borja Marcos wrote:
>
> And the /usr was small because I need a lot of room for /var.

The way you've described the issue sounds like it concerns mainly just 
ports, so perhaps a ports-specific adjustment like below is appropriate 
and an easy solution for any admin with sufficient inodes available on a 
partition of their choosing?  I am concerned about the drawbacks 
(performance) of increasing the ratio of inodes on /usr just to 
accommodate an optional and somewhat flexible component.

I've been setting this for many years now even when it is not a space 
concern on /usr, it keeps my /usr/ports tree clean and puts all the 
"junk" in a location I can easily clean out:

WRKDIRPREFIX=/var/tmp/ports



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