Re: Solving the syslogd problem

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Mon, 3 Feb 2020 22:57:21 +0100
    From:        Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <20200203215721.GA26515%bec.de@localhost>

  | I don't think the size distribution for / is really that much different
  | from most of /usr.

Most of /usr or all of /usr ?

jinx$ df -i / /usr
Filesystem    1K-blocks       Used      Avail %Cap    iUsed   iAvail %iCap Mounted on
/dev/dk6         514030     303190     185140  62%     5282    34908   13% /
/dev/dk9        1210904    1056208      94152  91%    30313    39829   43% /usr
jinx$ bc
scale=3
514030/5282
97.317
1210904/30313
39.946

/usr contains /usr/share which contains lots of small man pages, and
all kinds of other stuff like that (src is separately mounted, as are
/usr/pkg /usr/obj ...)

  | It's funny that you want to put /usr on a slower disk
  | given how many libs in /usr/lib are not present in /lib.

For the libraries that are actually used much (where access speed
might matter) they tend to be read once, and cached in RAM forever
after.   For the libraries that aren't used at all (many of them)
or which are rarely used, I don't care about access speed (and nor
should anyone else).

  | You need two files in /etc to bootstrap the rest.

Yes, that should work (along with something to handle boot.cfg when it
is needed in /) .. Thanks, I'll try that someday (still keeping / and /usr
separate though).

kre