From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Best file system for portage tree?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:30:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120310143015.6d507af3@weird.wonkology.org> (raw)
Hi there!
Is there an advantage in putting the portage tree on an extra partition?
Currently, I'm using reiserfs, because I read that it is efficient when
using many small files. On the other hand I also heard that it tends to
get slower with every emerge --sync.
Space is no longer an argument in these days, at least for my desktop
machine. But I would like to optimize for speed -- emerge -DputnVj
@world takes quite a while to calculate, I assume this is because so many
ebuild files have to be accessed.
Any tips on this? Does it make sense to use a special file system just
for the portage tree? What would be best? Would it help to re-create this
file system from time to time in case it gets slower with every sync? Or
wouldn't I notice a difference if I just used a big ext4 partition for
all portage related stuff?
Anyone using a compressed RAM file system for that? :)
Wonko
next reply other threads:[~2012-03-10 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-10 13:30 Alex Schuster [this message]
2012-03-10 14:39 ` [gentoo-user] Best file system for portage tree? Dale
2012-03-10 14:40 ` Florian Philipp
2012-03-10 15:09 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-10 15:14 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-10 17:20 ` Bryan Gardiner
2012-03-10 15:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-10 18:36 ` YoYo Siska
2012-03-10 19:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-11 22:42 ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-12 9:15 ` José Romildo Malaquias
2012-03-12 9:23 ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-13 12:30 ` YoYo Siska
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