From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LoKO8-0005sR-PJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:31:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D431E07CB; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:31:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BEBCE07CB for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:31:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D2864E92 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:31:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.985 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.985 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.614, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RHjVZJAjFWTj for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:30:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D08CC64357 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:30:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LoKNq-0002Oy-UT for gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:30:46 +0000 Received: from ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.99.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:30:46 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:30:46 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Recommendation about faster (not smaller) filesystem and blocksize combination for portage tree Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:30:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1238412618.18113.15.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: fb0ea5b8-51af-4a6e-9a07-656db8eb3f2d X-Archives-Hash: cd7733f5d30a23796bbe6aa1dbdd19ad Pacho Ramos posted 1238412618.18113.15.camel@localhost, excerpted below, on Mon, 30 Mar 200= 9 13:30:18 +0200: > I am trying to know what filesystem+blocksize combination could be > better for the kind of files stored in portage tree. >=20 > In the past, I have been using reiserfs for my / partition and I had > /usr/portage under it. Later, I moved /usr/portage to a different > partition (distfiles go to a different directory) and switched it to > ext2 (as, in theory, ext2 should be faster as has no journaling) and > 2048 as blocksize (that, of course, shrinks portage tree sizes but I am > unsure about its effects from a performance point of view) You are aware of the various reiserfs mount options, including notail and= =20 nolog, right? See the mount manpage. reiserfs was tuned for small=20 files, but these may speed it up even further. Other than that, much as I could suggest all sorts of stuff (like=20 PORTAGE_TMPDIR as tmpfs, will probably make more of a difference if you=20 have a decent amount of memory), I'll point you to the user forums and=20 list as more appropriate. This list is really for discussion of portage=20 and portage related development, not so much user portage speed tips, but= =20 ask in the user list and forums and you'll surely get all sorts of info!=20 =3D:^) --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman