From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms-smtp-05-eri0.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2P6BY1T011186 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 06:11:35 GMT Received: from [192.168.9.101] (cpe-66-25-88-87.satx.res.rr.com [66.25.88.87]) by ms-smtp-05-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j2P6BUPa000186; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:11:30 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4243A9F9.805@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:04:41 -0600 From: Daniel Goller User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050304) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: , , List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org CC: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] digest-* files in portage tree References: <4242BF20.2000100@pnpitalia.it> In-Reply-To: <4242BF20.2000100@pnpitalia.it> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigBBD9DFD31616A3DFDD4A6D08" X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: 77e180a8-eecd-471c-a962-5676ff9eec9c X-Archives-Hash: 85d28d8f5da8f1846ba4e58d51cc7d2d This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigBBD9DFD31616A3DFDD4A6D08 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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? > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > 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 --------------enigBBD9DFD31616A3DFDD4A6D08 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCQ6n5UpKYMelfdYERArYWAJ9k91/fvHhxzbrPnjDlVzQLv4m+7QCeIDbE uKtgDdiW9dPKiiZI3JAK3SQ= =ews6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigBBD9DFD31616A3DFDD4A6D08-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list