On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Phil Payne wrote: > Wouldn't one set of cache entries versus dozens or hundreds make a > difference in a large environment?
I suppose, but for the root filesystem there's generally too much system-unique stuff in there. Keeping that stuff unique while making the filesystem shareable doesn't warrant the extra work -- as Mark says, / needs no more than about 150MB on most systems. You can't share everything. Filesystems like /usr or /opt can give much greater gains for (arguably) less effort, since they can run out to 2GB or more. Cheers, Vic Cross ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
