FreeBSD Beta Testers

We plan to start beta testing our FreeBSD version in the next few days. If you have a clean FreeBSD 4.8 system and wish to get a free lifetime license in exchange for trying to destroy the software, please e-mail me at:

[email protected]

and ask to be put on the beta tester's list. I can't promise everyone will get to be a beta tester, especially if you don't have a system ready to go.

Please contact me if you need more information.

Mark

What is the suggested partitioning for the install?

I should already be on the beta testing list. Do I need to send email again?

We have a BSD 4.8 ready to roll.. will the following partition work ok? Or do we need more room in /usr ?

Very interested in getting this rolling, and helping you guys get a stable release out.. can't wait!


Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a 1004M 52M 871M 6% /
/dev/da0s4e 5.0G 72M 4.5G 2% /home
/dev/da0s3e 2.0G 955M 900M 51% /usr

Hello,

That partition will probably work fine. Just an FYI to everyone that the mysql databases will be housed in /home/mysql .. as /home is generally the "big" partition. Apache logs are still in /var/log/httpd, but can be easily moved ahead of time with a sym link for the "domains" folder to whereever you want.

I'm just finishing up the scripts for the installer at the momment... I havn't run it yet, so it may be a few days yet. Nice to finally almost have it done

John

If you had several drives in a machine, let's say 4, what would be a good partition setup? I have another machine ready for beta with just one drive and 4.8, but I am curious how I would utilize a machine with multiple drives most effectively.

For example, I have a machine with the following for a normal freebsd setup (where qmail and mysql are both under /var)

1 40 GB drive for /var/qmail
2 80 GB drives RAID'd with vinum for /var/db
1 120 GB drive for everything else

Not an urgent post, I am just antsy to get this thing going so my mind is starting to spin.

Hello,

The "big" directories, (in no particular order) are:

/home
/var/log
/var/lib/mysql (will be /usr/local/mysql/data -> /home/mysql on freebsd due to people who have small var partitions, just a symlink from data to /home/mysql, you can change it)
/var/spool For mail in both ./mail and ./virtual

So, from that you can decide what will be used the most... normally just websites for disk access... I would imagin that mysql would be fairly easy on disk access and stores a lot of data in memory, and keeps the number of reads/writes to a bear minimum... so if *I* had 4 hard drives with those sizes... I might have...

2 x 80 with RAID on /home
1 x 120 for /
1 x 40 for mysql, whever it may be (/var/lib/mysql or /home/mysql)

That is really quite overkill for some things and you can customize it however you want. The only drawback I can see is wasting space because you have a 120 gig for / which normally wouldn't use more than 10 gig.. and you are limited to 80 (which is still huge) on home... but I would want the raid setup on the most active partition, ie: the one with the most read/writes.

John

Our beta testers list is full, thanks everyone! Thread closed.