TeXLive merge into FreeBSD ports tree - FreeBSD project idea

Hi FreeBSD fellows, Those who are using LaTeX on FreeBSD must know that tetex has been discontinued years ago and that TeXLive is now recommended, however TeXLive has never been merged in the ports tree on FreeBSD and that tetex is still used on FreeBSD ports. Although there have been some "custo

Re: proper newfs options for SSD disk

Why? Your laptop have most probably slow CPU and it will make everything too slow if you make everything encrypted. I'd suggest some experiments - create a largish RAMdisk with and without GELI and see how the performance compares (this will be a lot faster than converting your SSD as well as sa

Re: proper newfs options for SSD disk

On 26 May 2012 15:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> Why? Your laptop have most probably slow CPU and it will make everything >>> too slow if you make everything encrypted. >> >> >> I'd suggest some experiments - create a largish RAMdisk with and without >> GELI and see how the performance compares (t

Re: proper newfs options for SSD disk

use tmpfs and don't fear to add /var/tmp to it. I would fear to add /var/tmp-- /var/tmp should persist across reboots. Chris as i noted - check your case.in my case it is not a problem. it your it may. Never blindly follow "rules", "good practices" etc.. _

BIO_DELETE equivalent for file on FFS filesystem

is it possible. suppose i have 1GB file with my data and 100 1 megabyte parts of it is no longer needed. i could reorganize that file to take 900MB or... can i call some system function to "punch" holes? ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: proper newfs options for SSD disk

On 26 May 2012 16:04, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> >>> use tmpfs and don't fear to add /var/tmp to it. >> >> >> I would fear to add /var/tmp-- /var/tmp should persist across reboots. >> >> Chris >> >> > as i noted - check your case.in my case it is not a problem. it your it may. > > Never blindly fo