On 10-Jun-2012, at 6:13 AM, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
> On 9 June 2012 18:38, RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> 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 out of date port during a fetch.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. >> > > Or, move the portsnap tree to somewhere other than /var > (see /etc/portsnap.conf for that & such). > I think that a file-backed md* mounted only when portsnap > was in use would save on inodes, yeah? Actually I think that is a very good idea. That is how I have set up my system as well with one difference. I have tons of memory and use a memory based filesystem to store all the in-compile objects. -- Subhro Sankha Kar System Administrator Working and Playing with FreeBSD since 2002_______________________________________________ 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"