From: Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Separate /usr
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 10:41:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3103632.vvIsoWeEWl@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070510092445.16cfc9b1@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello Alan McKinnon,
>
>> I never understood why portage on a sparse file is beneficial. Mine is
>> on a small reiser logival volume mounted with option "tail". It's just
>> big enough to hold portage with 10-15% free space (the tree doesn't
>> expand that much over time).
>
> It is faster.
Hm. I don't understand. Why is portage in a sparse file of, let's say,
400m, with reiserfs and notail mounted, faster, then a real partition
of 400m with reiserfs and notail?
What makes the sparse file faster?
Alexander Skwar
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-08 23:56 [gentoo-user] Clock is way off Grant
2007-05-09 5:28 ` AJ Spagnoletti
2007-05-09 6:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Anno v. Heimburg
2007-05-09 14:27 ` Grant
2007-05-09 14:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 15:45 ` Grant
2007-05-09 16:12 ` Redouane Boumghar
2007-05-09 17:05 ` Dale
2007-05-09 17:17 ` Uwe Thiem
2007-05-09 17:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 17:53 ` [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off] Benno Schulenberg
2007-05-09 18:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 18:29 ` Randy Barlow
2007-05-09 18:34 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-05-09 18:54 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-05-09 20:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 21:21 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-05-09 21:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 6:56 ` Naga
2007-05-10 8:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 21:22 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-05-09 21:52 ` Mick
2007-05-09 21:49 ` darren kirby
2007-05-09 23:01 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-09 23:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 2:16 ` Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
2007-05-10 7:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-05-09 23:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 0:31 ` darren kirby
2007-05-10 0:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 2:01 ` darren kirby
2007-05-10 7:31 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-05-10 8:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 8:41 ` Alexander Skwar [this message]
2007-05-10 9:40 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Separate /usr Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 10:11 ` Benno Schulenberg
2007-05-10 10:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 21:36 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-11 5:51 ` Andrey Gerasimenko
2007-05-09 18:54 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Clock is way off Dale
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