From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:14:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104131214.39244.wonko@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DA46856.3050308@gmail.com>
Dale writes:
> Same here. I use ext3 and reiserfs, depending on what it is, but /boot
> is always ext2. Why, it works well with grub and has for many many
> years and most likely will for many years to come as well.
>
> As for making things the same, that my not always be a good idea
> either. I put some things on reiserfs but some on ext3. It seams each
> file system has its strengths and weaknesses. I read that portage, with
> a lot of small files, does better on ext* file systems. So I put
> portage on that. Most everything else is on reiserfs.
It's the other way around here - all ext3 except for /boot, but the portage
tree is on reiserfs. Which is said to be very fast when dealing with lots of
small files, because files under 4K are stored directly in the inodes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS#Performance
Wonko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-13 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-11 18:12 [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4 James
2011-04-11 20:18 ` Mick
2011-04-12 5:57 ` Stroller
2011-04-12 14:10 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-04-12 14:31 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-04-12 14:57 ` Dale
2011-04-12 15:16 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-12 15:44 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-04-13 10:14 ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2011-04-11 20:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2011-04-12 2:09 ` Mark Shields
2011-04-12 9:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-12 14:20 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-04-12 16:53 ` James
2011-04-13 9:46 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 12:56 ` James
2011-04-14 13:14 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 14:41 ` Paul Hartman
2011-04-14 13:10 ` James
2011-04-14 13:41 ` James
2011-04-14 14:11 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 15:07 ` James
2011-04-14 15:52 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 16:29 ` James
2011-04-14 19:49 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 20:19 ` James
2011-04-14 21:12 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 20:24 ` James
2011-04-14 14:13 ` Dale
2011-04-14 14:52 ` James
2011-04-14 16:14 ` Dale
2011-04-14 16:34 ` James
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