From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (unknown [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84AA41381FA for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 15:53:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7CBFE09BA; Sun, 11 May 2014 15:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com (mail-wi0-f179.google.com [209.85.212.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A05D1E07B3 for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 15:53:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f179.google.com with SMTP id bs8so3380035wib.6 for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 08:53:46 -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=bzcsajNuCc0aAT/djzoviFJS1f4TO7sg/WT5DUnfe6g=; b=UarRghcOpFqyt3BJgyJfXmcFyCp/tPObWlMDmUAnX1lx8KvcaPZEmaRz15QuHcMEUJ qI1Jaw5rLlrtku7zP43JUoUDP5vOwepOl9i1hp9v2u3fHCtIFIGJ+9Cbgh5KLLHUN5Ed Wl1YPJzs0HSzCz1/ZE5BSqPk/vTD5GfknCAAjfUb+DBTCCpQrnVXjiaJeZ5/L2PXbmfJ RWUErTEiawNCN/u3thFeNMJUAqHvi6fRm6DNqRBESg7rjIayDTCGEeI5uBpOkmEsrld0 o7Zjt2LFH2K8Mks/BlnN7W+a4InDcfWT0y1hh4yxVypcpabh9D5zCleGeGQStq4NqpAl RCWg== X-Received: by 10.194.60.4 with SMTP id d4mr17572751wjr.28.1399823626308; Sun, 11 May 2014 08:53:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (196-210-102-95.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.95]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id h1sm14122717wjy.7.2014.05.11.08.53.44 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 11 May 2014 08:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <536F9CE6.8060304@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 17:53:10 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 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] planned btrfs conversion: questions References: <20140506121832.678ae781@marcec> <201405110953.13798.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <536F5469.5010901@iinet.net.au> <1750520.K3pSx2xjXz@wstn> In-Reply-To: <1750520.K3pSx2xjXz@wstn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f7037a4a-d352-44bd-8331-a0f8e4dd00f2 X-Archives-Hash: 22dfc0f216a6ea5f387677b7e31580bb 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