From: Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 02:35:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120331093544.GA19939@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120331084402.GA23183@gentoo.org>
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 08:44:02AM +0000, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:06:18AM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > Looks then that there are several alternatives for portage tree, then,
> > maybe the option would be to add a note to Gentoo Handbook explaining
> > the cons of having portage tree on a standard partition and, then, put a
> > link to a wiki page (for example) where all this alternatives are
> > explained.
> >
> > What do you think about this approach?
>
> I don't like the "cons" approach, as it gives the impression that users are
> pushed into a negative solution, whereas the current situation works just
> fine for almost all users. The approach for a different partition is for
> performance reasons (which most users don't have any negative feelings
> about) and as such might be read as a "ricer" approach.
For modern hardware w/ a modern kernel (or at least >=2.6.38 for the
dcache resolution optimizations)... does anyone actually have real
performance stats for this?
If the notion is a seperate FS, one tailored to the portage tree's
usage models (tail packing for example), sure, grok that although I
question how much people really are getting out of it.
In the past, situation definitely differed- I'm just wondering if the
gain is actually worth debating it, rather than just ignoring it (or
sticking it in a foot note for people trying to use durons).
~harring
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[not found] ` <20120327154239.GA17394@gentoo.org>
2012-03-27 17:49 ` [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook Pacho Ramos
2012-03-27 18:01 ` Sven Vermeulen
2012-03-27 18:21 ` Aaron W. Swenson
2012-03-27 18:34 ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
2012-03-27 18:47 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-27 18:53 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-03-27 19:02 ` vivo75
2012-03-27 19:04 ` Aaron W. Swenson
2012-03-27 19:13 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-03-27 19:31 ` Aaron W. Swenson
2012-03-27 19:16 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-30 8:00 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-03-27 19:15 ` Sven Vermeulen
2012-03-27 19:20 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-27 19:29 ` William Hubbs
2012-03-27 19:40 ` Sven Vermeulen
2012-03-27 19:57 ` Richard Yao
2012-03-27 20:15 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-27 20:05 ` Alec Moskvin
2012-03-30 8:06 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-03-31 8:44 ` Sven Vermeulen
2012-03-31 9:35 ` Brian Harring [this message]
2012-03-31 13:36 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-03-31 13:34 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-03-31 17:42 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-31 23:25 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-01 0:33 ` Zac Medico
2013-07-21 11:42 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-07-21 11:57 ` Michał Górny
2013-07-21 12:06 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-07-21 12:15 ` Michał Górny
2013-07-21 18:00 ` Zac Medico
2013-07-21 18:55 ` Michał Górny
2013-07-21 14:26 ` Michael Weber
2013-07-21 14:46 ` justin
2013-07-21 17:01 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-04-01 8:06 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-04-01 15:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-02 4:41 ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-30 7:57 ` [gentoo-dev] " Pacho Ramos
2012-03-30 7:57 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-03-27 18:16 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-28 7:16 ` Brian Dolbec
2012-03-28 10:35 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-28 14:53 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-28 14:59 ` Richard Yao
2012-03-28 15:27 ` Matt Turner
2012-03-28 15:37 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-28 18:56 ` Brian Dolbec
2012-03-28 17:41 ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-28 22:27 ` Joshua Saddler
2012-03-29 0:35 ` Dale
2012-03-29 2:21 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-03-29 3:11 ` Dale
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