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 D933E1381F3 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:14:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA583E0AF7; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:13:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f52.google.com (mail-bk0-f52.google.com [209.85.214.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B50E5E0ACF for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:13:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f52.google.com with SMTP id e11so2831119bkh.39 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:13:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=u8wr+/nbyyjqQi55qvh8OGfX5ST+c72T7CTgoCmOjK0=; b=JCTe0nPvD8p8U+sEsDFoRYJXJwK9k+xndt9W6kHoDBNmWTZfLDKFWusArMIucIh2c2 y6roDXZRVk6zPZ4NASv60Ndle+XjG5rbCv5ckmuorNQsBju+oJ37WFLaHhZ1dclFRuNS GqrdGyhC4epCu1nv1ec1XJRxl1vABBctekfJz//FjGVmDbKwgskZKfJwhWJNtb437C/Z xJcG47KLe0Zma9Ni/2PmXJxVhAeghHTCClH3nIxZuCRKoqj78Oevwgf0cl3T/oemceoD UFvEDs61exUUxwGtRlbo0fdeMdueK+ih6pnY6e3ZrTHjmxejZf6ZEGFrIPwXaK6C9Oic wVHQ== X-Received: by 10.205.14.197 with SMTP id pr5mr18368687bkb.6.1379517230225; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:13:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-126-33.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.126.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id no2sm1146443bkb.15.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:13:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5239C231.9080702@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:09:37 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130809 Thunderbird/17.0.8 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage? References: <5239A20E.7090102@ramses-pyramidenbau.de> <4083700.7YOtJyrB1G@wstn> In-Reply-To: <4083700.7YOtJyrB1G@wstn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5623d1b4-f589-4d57-9c8e-870673f79a39 X-Archives-Hash: ca20fd5bb240fb6cd82a1ff9fc7aa073 On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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. Sooner or later, reiser is going to bitrot. The ReiserFS code itself will not change, but everything around it and what it plugs into will change. When that happens (not if - when), there is no-one to fix the bug and you will find yourself up the creek sans paddle An FS is not like a widget set, you can't really live with and workaround any defects that develop. When an FS needs patching, it needs patching, no ifs and buts. Reiser may nominally have a maintainer but in real terms there is effectively no-one Circumstances have caused ReiserFS to become a high-risk scenario and even though it might perform faultlessly right now, continued use should be evaluated in terms of that very real risk. > Perhaps you meant that, say, ext4 has better all-round performance? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com