On Sat, July 5, 2008 2:27 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: > The main issue for /tmp/ and /var is going to be size. HAMMER is > not really designed for tiny partitions. They would have to be > mounted 'nohistory' at a minimum and probably also have to be reblocked > daily, depending on how full they get. > > The absolute bare minimum would be on the order of 2GB and frankly I > wouldn't be comfortable making a HAMMER filesystem smaller then about > 10GB. 2GB is only 256x8M... only 256 big-blocks. Even moderate > fragmentation would require reblocking fairly often.
Well, internal hard disks under 100G are getting hard to find, so I doubt this is going to be a huge issue. It should be documented. There's also the possibility that things could be mounted under /, instead of multiple partitions.