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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 17:53:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <536F9CE6.8060304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1750520.K3pSx2xjXz@wstn>

On 11/05/2014 14:29, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 11 May 2014 18:43:53 William Kenworthy wrote:
> 
>> One reason I am moving from reiserfs is bitrot - I can see that reiserfs is
>> losing favour.
> 
> I'd been given that impression too, so a month or two ago I converted my few 
> reiserfs partitions to ext4. When I came to restoring the /usr/portage 
> partition from backup I had to double its size to fit the files in (or I could 
> have tried fiddling with the arguments to mkfs.ext4, but resizing was easier at 
> the time).
> 

Reiserfs bitrot was always a sad thing for me with the portage tree.

Reiser always truly excelled at storing, accessing and deleting
thousands of small files, just like the tree contains.

Like you, I ended up making my ext4 volumes for the tree twice as big
and got over it. I still miss the reiser performance though

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-11 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-06 10:18 [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions Marc Joliet
2014-05-06 18:13 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-05-06 23:30   ` Marc Joliet
2014-05-06 22:53 ` [gentoo-user] " Marc Joliet
2014-05-07 15:12   ` Marc Joliet
2014-05-09 21:05   ` Marc Joliet
2014-05-06 22:56 ` William Kenworthy
2014-05-06 23:51   ` Marc Joliet
2014-05-08 11:57     ` William Kenworthy
2014-05-08 18:14       ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-09 19:59         ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-10 11:14           ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-11 12:35             ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-11 16:17               ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-11 17:37                 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-05-11 21:24                 ` [gentoo-user] btrfs conversion: first impressions Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-12 14:30                   ` Marc Joliet
2014-05-12 18:28                     ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-13 22:34                       ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-13 23:02                         ` Neil Bothwick
2014-05-13 23:09                           ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-14  0:39                             ` Neil Bothwick
2014-05-14  8:01                               ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-14  8:42                                 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-05-14  8:54                                   ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-14  9:26                                     ` Neil Bothwick
2014-05-14  9:30                                       ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-15  6:17                                         ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-12 11:19                 ` [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-08 20:43       ` Marc Joliet
2014-05-10  9:33       ` William Kenworthy
2014-05-11  8:53         ` Mick
2014-05-11 10:43           ` William Kenworthy
2014-05-11 12:29             ` Peter Humphrey
2014-05-11 15:53               ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2014-05-12 14:08           ` Marc Joliet
2014-05-12 14:39             ` Peter Humphrey
2014-05-12 15:04               ` Marc Joliet
2014-05-12 16:15                 ` Dale
2014-05-12 19:12                   ` Marc Joliet
2014-05-12 19:28                 ` Daniel Frey
2014-05-07  2:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Jonathan Callen
2014-05-16 20:15 ` [gentoo-user] experience thus far (was: planned btrfs conversion: questions) Marc Joliet
2014-05-16 20:43   ` Marc Joliet
2014-05-17  0:08   ` [gentoo-user] experience thus far William Kenworthy
2014-05-17  0:44     ` Marc Joliet
2014-05-17  3:02     ` William Kenworthy
2014-05-17  7:53       ` Mick
2014-05-17 11:41         ` Rich Freeman
2014-05-17 10:07     ` Neil Bothwick
2014-05-17 12:35       ` William Kenworthy

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