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 1S6rUF-0003Sg-Vk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:43:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2411CE0974; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:43:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6543E063D for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:42:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-84-44-209-114.netcologne.de [84.44.209.114]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 15F27DC04D for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:42:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:42:17 +0100 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best file system for portage tree? Message-ID: <20120311234217.0b7d0156@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <20120310183606.GA13466@ksp.sk> References: <20120310143015.6d507af3@weird.wonkology.org> <20120310153505.54bfd38e@digimed.co.uk> <20120310183606.GA13466@ksp.sk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 218620c2-98d2-41ae-8433-5cf047654cca X-Archives-Hash: beb5df6d433ea13bea3a5b8aef692da2 YoYo Siska writes: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 03:35:05PM +0000, Neil Bothwick 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. Replaying a reiserfs journal in case of an unclean reboot also takes about the same time as an whole e2fsck, so I switched to ext2. There was no real need to make the switch, I just wanted to re-create this file system that has been synced very often now. > I use an ext2 partition in a 500MB file image on most of my computers. I also did this in the past, on systems where I did not use LVM. Nowadays I prefer the latter. > 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: Yes, happened to me more than once... > mke2fs -f -b1024 -i2048 /usr/img_portage That's what I did. Well, without the container file. Thanks to all who replied! I learnt something, like so often when reading here. Wonko