[gentoo-dev] Re: digest-* files in portage tree

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Robin H. Johnson posted
<20050325071250.GA11908@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net>, excerpted below, 
on Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:12:50 -0800:

> As a workaround, I have my CVS checkout of the tree on a reiser3 partition
> with tail-packing enabled. This really helps, esp. as CVS has 4 files of
> overhead for per working directory. I'm not aware of any other
> tail-packing read-write filesystems unfortunately. (I know that read-only
> ones like squashfs etc. exist).

I was just going to mention reiserfs, which I use exclusively (in
data=ordered mode).  I /believe/ one of the other journalled fs, either
jfs or <forgot>, does something similar, using large blocks but packing
files into them irrespective of size.  I read that somewhere and noted it
with interest, but reiserfs has been sufficient for me, particularly after
it got data=ordered (and now data=journal, tho ordered is sufficient for
me) support.

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