Am 06.09.2011 21:24, schrieb James Broadhead:
> On 6 September 2011 19:55, Permjacov Evgeniy <permeakra@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>>> Disk I/O Characteristic: Occasional writes during 'normal' usage,
>>> once-a-week eix-sync + emerge -avuD
>>> Priority: Stable (i.e., less chance of corruption), least CPU usage.
> 
> You would have to profile this, but I imagine that the best approach
> would be to compile in a RAM disk and copy. I think that you're
> probably trying to optimise the wrong part of this problem.
> 
> As for ext3/ext4, the improvements to fsck alone make ext4 the FS of
> choice between the two.
> 
> JB
> 

Pandu is building a firewall. Putting a ton of RAM in it just for the
sake for system updates is plain overkill and -- depending on his IaaS
provider -- pretty expensive.

Regards,
Florian Philipp