From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCFDC1381F3 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC9C3E0B28; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:05:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [5.9.116.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759D0E0B08 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38DB7DC153B for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:05:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (78-32-181-186.static.enta.net [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0897DC06C3 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:05:06 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage? Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:05:06 +0100 Message-ID: <4083700.7YOtJyrB1G@wstn> Organization: Retired software quality manager User-Agent: KMail/4.10.5 (Linux/3.10.7-gentoo; KDE/4.10.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <5239A20E.7090102@ramses-pyramidenbau.de> References: <5239A20E.7090102@ramses-pyramidenbau.de> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-DSPAM-Result: Whitelisted X-DSPAM-Processed: Wed Sep 18 15:05:07 2013 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.9899 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 5239b31346964611916675 X-Archives-Salt: a965a1da-dd66-41ff-8230-bf471d17f869 X-Archives-Hash: 66b91802505983a7987e29dd853abfcc On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: > In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the significance of its date? I use reiserfs on my Atom box for /var, /var/cache/squid and /usr/portage, and on my workstation for /usr/portage and /home/prh/.VirtualBox. It's never given me any trouble at all. Perhaps you meant that, say, ext4 has better all-round performance? -- Regards, Peter