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 out of date port during a fetch.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? *I guess mdmfs(8) is the jawns y'all use nowadays, yo? -- -- _______________________________________________ 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"