/usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap

[Max Laier]

On Saturday 06 August 2005 19:55, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> Colin Percival wrote:
> > Your "rather oldish and rather smallish" /var is four times the default
> > size used in sysinstall (256MB is used for /, /tmp, and /var if you have
> > a large enough drive).  This default results in having ~32000 inodes.
> >
> > I wonder if it's time to increase the default size of /var again.
>
> I would agree, even without portsnap. With things like MySQL using
> /var/db (if I remember) as the default it might be a way to avoid a few
> more mails to questions@ without impacting the normal user.
>
> Hard drives are pennies to the GB and always getting cheaper; I've been
> making 1-5gb /var's for awhile even on non-database servers just to have
> a little more wiggle room for logs.
>
> As a side note, I've always wished we had a selectable list of "auto"
> configure options, database server, web-server, minimalist, etc.

Indeed - maybe that's a good TODO for the BSDInstaller integration?

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