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
next prev parent 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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