Re: sockets and HAMMER

["Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.