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

[Ryan Sommers]

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.

-- 
Ryan Sommers
ryans at gamersimpact.com