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 1Hm4CQ-0008Q4-N4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 08:40:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4A8bpwC001824; Thu, 10 May 2007 08:37:51 GMT Received: from desiato.localdomain (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4A8OqhP015717 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 08:24:53 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A63A12AEA7 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 09:24:51 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 09:24:45 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off] Message-ID: <20070510092445.16cfc9b1@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200705100931.42813.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> References: <49bf44f10705081656s776f28f5kbe497a5326107c2f@mail.gmail.com> <200705091549.45764.bulliver@badcomputer.org> <20070510000608.319c2326@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <200705100931.42813.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2cvs2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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="Sig_Gwv/yz0weNcPQG4oCexZC04"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: c8f380eb-c367-477e-89e6-1fcc68520790 X-Archives-Hash: c9df5d0a9ff60eb7eb0fab087d63684c --Sig_Gwv/yz0weNcPQG4oCexZC04 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Alan McKinnon, > I never understood why portage on a sparse file is beneficial. Mine is=20 > on a small reiser logival volume mounted with option "tail". It's just=20 > big enough to hold portage with 10-15% free space (the tree doesn't=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick We shall shortly be landing. Please return your stewardess to the upright position. --Sig_Gwv/yz0weNcPQG4oCexZC04 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGQtbSum4al0N1GQMRAkwSAKCDLT3icd3mRrzLweDRe9kcToxI6gCdErOp oDjuX7gIt3v+yFFaStaPiYc= =FxwG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_Gwv/yz0weNcPQG4oCexZC04-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list