Francesco Riosa wrote:
> In addition to "Manifest" files in portage tree there are 19000
> "digest-${P}" files in the portage tree each of this uses 4k on ext{2,3}
> filesystem and has to be scanned each time rsync is run on the tree.
> Is possible to avoid the use of theese files?
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while not technically what you asked for, keeping the tree on a
partition with a smaller than default block and inode size would allow
you to decrease wasted space significantly, ext3 does 1024 in linux
iirc, docs suggest 512 should be possible, but i have not found a fs on
linux that did indeed allow actual use of 512byte blocks/inodes (yes you
want to make sure to adjust both, not just one)

hope this helps while people consider integrating them elsewhere to safe
the most space possible