On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 07:22:50 -0600 Gary Aitken wrote: > I reconfigured my ssd filesystem with the /var partition of size > 512M. Unfortunately, something in portsnap or the ports tree in > general uses a boatload of small files, and i ran out of inodes. Can > anyone recommend an appropriate size for the newfs -i value? 1024? > less?
portsnap needs roughly one file per port plus one for each out of date port during a fetch. There are 23658 ports. In FreeBSD 9 the fragment size increased, halving the default number of inodes. With only 32k inodes it's possible to run out with portsnap alone. You can probably get away with the old default of 64k (-i 8192), or perhaps 128k (-i 4096). Check how many files you have outside of portsnap and do the arithmetic. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
