From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NmPtC-00033V-Op for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:03:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC4BFE0A10 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:03:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33BC4E0997 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9D5875C16C0 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:10:41 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:10:31 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation Message-ID: <20100302101031.13ee93c9@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201003021035.43235.wonko@wonkology.org> References: <58965d8a1002260954v37bc6293xd4b92d82183bd346@mail.gmail.com> <201003021035.43235.wonko@wonkology.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5cvs26 (GTK+ 2.18.7; i686-pc-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@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/02j+=wNNcg6Pzu7HQ1AeyF/"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: b50c6a55-a489-4ae9-b1b3-5ce544e4f556 X-Archives-Hash: 2e1a9db8a868be935fee5a266f73b813 --Sig_/02j+=wNNcg6Pzu7HQ1AeyF/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > - best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small > > cluster size maybe. =20 >=20 > I think reiserfs with the notail option is recommended. The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I use. There's no need for journalling on the portage tree, it's small enough to fsck quickly and if it does get broken, reformat and resync. --=20 Neil Bothwick New Intel opcode #007 PUKE: Put unmeaningful keywords everywhere --Sig_/02j+=wNNcg6Pzu7HQ1AeyF/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuM5B4ACgkQum4al0N1GQNNvQCgnrFaiGo9i5oLwzRXw6XN/ZOH 7cwAn2jWzL/DzrrzsCzGYz5TxeXVknRP =GlwR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/02j+=wNNcg6Pzu7HQ1AeyF/--