Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:42:24 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> Subject: Re: dovecot, maildir, UFS 2 performance Message-ID: <200809250042.25231.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <20080924194436.P65305@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <48D95A19.8030700@shopzeus.com> <447i91bh1n.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20080924194436.P65305@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Wednesday 24 September 2008 19:49:54 Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> i said tradition - because very old unix filesystems (25 years ago.. or
> more) was different and sometimes got totally corrupted.
10 years ago (not 25), news:// was hawt. And created tons on small files, by
default on /var/news, which is/was one good reason to make /var have a
smaller fragment size.
The use of /tmp as memdisk is obvious.
Having done several major version OS upgrades on different bootable slice,
made me appreciate a /home partition.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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