Hello Alan McKinnon,

> I never understood why portage on a sparse file is beneficial. Mine is 
> on a small reiser logival volume mounted with option "tail". It's just 
> big enough to hold portage with 10-15% free space (the tree doesn't 
> expand that much over time).

It is faster. If I were going to use reiserfs (I use ext2 for this) I'd
use it with notail, the tail packing impacts performance. I'm more
interested in speed than saving disk space.


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