Vic,

150MB?  I said about 15MB.  I think I can fit a whole system into 150MB.  :)


Mark Post

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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

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