From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 11 12:23:38 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 12:23:35 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A959C37B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:23:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eBBKNSk94297; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:23:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:23:28 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200012112023.eBBKNSk94297@earth.backplane.com> To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: danh@gelatinous.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and "/" References: <20001211195028.74138.qmail@cube.gelatinous.com> <20001211121635.F16205@fw.wintelcom.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :Yes and no. : :Yes because the delayed deletion "feature" of softupdates may cause :you to run out of space on / when doing installworld unless / is :pretty large. I use ~120 MB to get around this, but I may not need :that much. : :No because if your /tmp is in / then tempfile creation and deletion :will be signifigantly faster which can really speed up applications :especially stupid ones that use lockfiles in /tmp. : :I recommend using softupdates on / as long as you have enough space, :120-150 megs, with disk speeds these days fsck'ing ~120MB doesn't :take that long. : :-- :-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] I'll second that recommendation. I always configure 128MB root paritions precisely so things like 'make installworld' don't run a softupdates-enabled root out of space. And, besides, this way I can keep a bunch of kernels sitting in / rather then just one or two. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message