From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HluEg-0005nC-Br for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 22:02:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l49Lxl79009213; Wed, 9 May 2007 21:59:47 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l49LqSKp032540 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 21:52:29 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so376834ugc for ; Wed, 09 May 2007 14:52:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=TTLE9AKKNRLpCU5/SRb+vmVJ+7cZU+K/96LMruubvLOI+DqrK8K97B4Vf3nR5nWecJKtkgMtU34Yr4YL/a6rhd2LdLrFuPGyue+8gpqilwOwyztsDTA/036Y3vFHj1oTn5R4uqQne2JAdYOG7Wle+znIsQhXwxh0v90b16B2N6M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=d/7SP3KuFAw98njy5IgNOxfDOzwC2UOQqcSg6h8RQZ9z/lQEDO5JolECspsh3+Q5aQeGw38kWvSV3NDWwHQRdAiuxH9TY8aYHwDcgiggDNf0Ov1c9KeABL1bK07CjKntuj270W67peAf30dZ01jtsQ3uq7H7FBWe3NdWlcUZ73k= Received: by 10.66.249.16 with SMTP id w16mr1555874ugh.1178747548599; Wed, 09 May 2007 14:52:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 53sm3904936ugn.2007.05.09.14.52.27; Wed, 09 May 2007 14:52:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off] Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 22:52:04 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <49bf44f10705081656s776f28f5kbe497a5326107c2f@mail.gmail.com> <20070509210358.29b57e1f@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200705091622.06056.bss03@volumehost.net> In-Reply-To: <200705091622.06056.bss03@volumehost.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1815178.Car0FJhSgj"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705092252.06027.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6787f975-38a8-41c7-ae26-324388cce042 X-Archives-Hash: dcbb723d22f5598f70e9842e88a9784f --nextPart1815178.Car0FJhSgj Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 09 May 2007 22:22, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote > > about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]': > > Hello Daniel Iliev, > > > > > Some say it gives performance boost (I'm not sure about it), but more > > > importantly it gives (partial) protection from file system damage. > > > > You could also argue that /usr needs the least protection from > > filesystem damage, because it contains no data. /usr can be repaired > > with > > a reinstall, unlike /var, /home or /etc. > > That's my view, which is why /usr (fast, RAID0) is separate from / > (containing /etc; RAID6) on my machine. These days I keep /usr/portage on a separate partition to minimise fs=20 fragmentation. On an old slooow box of mine I have /usr/local/bin=20 and /usr/local/lib on separate disks, as well as /var/tmp and /usr/bin and= =20 keep them on primary partitions for extra speed and parallel=20 access/processing across two different IDE controllers: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Multi-Disk-HOWTO.html One can get really silly at this, I certainly did, but on modern machines w= ith=20 SATA drives the difference in speed is probably marginal. I didn't keep=20 notes of any benchmarks but despite the asthmatic hardware my=20 multi-disk/partitioning scheme did pay some noticeable dividends as far as = I=20 can recall. Of course, YMMV. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1815178.Car0FJhSgj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGQkKF5Fp0QerLYPcRAl9zAKCwuU9E6iLPJDwSycKqSAfh0PTTNgCcCXSn KMriiHOl0SbjBcMbTgAv1Ts= =sAl9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1815178.Car0FJhSgj-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list