Re: [gentoo-user] Best file system for portage tree?

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:36:07 +0100, YoYo Siska wrote:

> > I use an ext2 filesystem for portage, it's still the fastest out
> > there. Journals are unnecessary because its such a small filesystem,
> > and if it does get damaged I can just reformat and sync again.  
> 
> I use an ext2 partition in a 500MB file image on most of my computers.

I used to do that but, after switching to LVM, it was simpler to use an
LV.

> Its important to check the inode count on such small filesytem, as
> mke2fs' default inode ration for such size is 4096, which is too
> low for portage:
> 
> dd bs=$((500*1024*1024)) count=1 if=/dev/zero of=/usr/img_portage
> mke2fs -f -b1024 -i2048 /usr/img_portage

I use similar arguments for mke2fs.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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