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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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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-10  9:01 UTC|newest]

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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