From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Dec 8 10:34: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C8ED37B417; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 10:34:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fB8IY5011679; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 10:34:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 10:34:05 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Robert Watson , "Louis A. Mamakos" , Sheldon Hearn , Kirk McKusick , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems Message-ID: <20011208103405.D11428@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200112080400.fB8403P00383@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200112080400.fB8403P00383@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:00:03PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:00:03PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > I strongly disagree with MDing /tmp. It's a hugely bad idea. I know you've mentioned this before. Are there technical reasons behind this? I believe you mentioned something about the buffer cache? Would you be willing to add it as an option since so many others seem to want it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message