From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C531381F3 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 12:16:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BD65E0AFD; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 12:15:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [5.9.116.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60863E09ED for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 12:15:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3306ADC1975 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 13:15:53 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (78-32-181-186.static.enta.net [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE7B1DC1967 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 13:15:52 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage? Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 13:15:51 +0100 Message-ID: <1500929.8ZqSA5DKoP@wstn> Organization: Retired software quality manager User-Agent: KMail/4.10.5 (Linux/3.10.7-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.10.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <524D3F00.9090901@fastmail.co.uk> References: <5239C231.9080702@gmail.com> <524D3F00.9090901@fastmail.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-DSPAM-Result: Whitelisted X-DSPAM-Processed: Thu Oct 3 13:15:53 2013 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.9899 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 524d5ff946961192418129 X-Archives-Salt: 67a2bff1-17a1-4d03-baef-436f6e488ab9 X-Archives-Hash: 73eddef4d9830a44896dd3318267f2be On Thursday 03 Oct 2013 10:55:12 Kerin Millar wrote: > In my view, ReiserFS is only useful for saving space through tail > packing. Unfortunately, tail packing makes it slower still (an issue > that was supposed to be resolved for good in Reiser4). If I remember aright, I started using ReiserFS before ext4 was released. It seemed at the time to offer better performance than ext3 for many small files (portage tree) and for large ones (source files), so I used it for those purposes. If those advantages have now disappeared, it looks like time to switch to ext4 for everything other than /boot, which is still ext2 here. > In general, I would recommend ext4 or xfs as the go-to filesystems these > days. Thanks for your comments, Kerin. And others who contributed too. -- Regards, Peter