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 1Hm5hz-0000wb-Hk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 10:17:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4AAG0kU019414; Thu, 10 May 2007 10:16:00 GMT Received: from smtp17.wxs.nl (smtp17.wxs.nl [195.121.247.8]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4AABcjm014778 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 10:11:39 GMT Received: from graskamp (ip51cfa1ef.direct-adsl.nl [81.207.161.239]) by smtp17.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.15 (built Nov 14 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JHT00G3HLNEUT@smtp17.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 12:11:38 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 12:11:34 +0200 From: Benno Schulenberg Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Separate /usr In-reply-to: <20070510104016.360d3a97@hactar.digimed.co.uk> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200705101211.34696.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> 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: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <49bf44f10705081656s776f28f5kbe497a5326107c2f@mail.gmail.com> <3103632.vvIsoWeEWl@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> <20070510104016.360d3a97@hactar.digimed.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 5220c379-d682-4333-b9e7-5d8ce5505212 X-Archives-Hash: 7dca5bfa97924c091cd2b0183359bde0 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2007 10:41:04 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Hm. I don't understand. Why is portage in a sparse file of, > > let's say, 400m, with reiserfs and notail mounted, faster, then > > a real partition of 400m with reiserfs and notail? > > No idea, but I tried it when I encountered that page and portage > operations were measurably faster. That might well be just the transfer effect: you went from an old fragmented file system to a fresh unfragmented one. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list