Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:50:20 -0400 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk Message-ID: <p06230916bf4d11bb5363@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <F74CCD5E-AD4C-4343-9626-5F6460C4D6C6@xcllnt.net> References: <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <200509110310.36423@harrymail> <43255152.3000609@freebsd.org> <20050912165518.GA94181@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050913125820.GA10663@FreeBSD.org> <F74CCD5E-AD4C-4343-9626-5F6460C4D6C6@xcllnt.net>
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At 8:29 AM -0700 9/13/05, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>On Sep 13, 2005, at 5:58 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>AFAIK, we still do not turn softupdates on /, but do on other
>>partitions. With your proposed idea, softupdates should be
>>on on /. How safe is this today?
>
>I never use separate partitions for /usr and /var on my scratch
>boxes and I always enable SU on /. I can't say I've ever had any
>problems.
Just as another data point: I do *not* have a separate partition
for /usr and /var (*), so my '/' partitions are similar in size to
the standard setup. On two machines that I can quickly check here,
I have a 300-meg '/' on one, and a 470-meg '/' on the other. My
other systems probably have a smaller root partition, because these
two machines are my two most-recent builds.
I have been running with softupdates enabled on '/' for a long time,
and as far as I know it hasn't caused me any problems since maybe
5.2.1. It did used to cause me occasional problems a few years ago,
but I can't remember any recent problems.
I must admit I'm a little uneasy moving /usr and /var into '/', just
because I'm so used to the way it is. I really *like* having /var as
a separate partition. But hard disks are huge compared to how they
used to be, so I don't mind having a 500-meg '/'. I *do* save the
kernel.debug information in my /boot/kernel's, and my root partition
is still under 50% full.
(* - Except for my PowerPC machine... That machine has everything
in '/' except for one large empty partition on '/usr/obj', and
a memory-disk partition sitting on /tmp_md ).
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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