From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:18:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiAUsuWGzNpPFWGs4AdKJDbxP0eTuop77sGbbPTUN8TXhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E666C9C.8000605@gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Permjacov Evgeniy <permeakra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> So, can anyone recommend me a filesystem that fulfills my following needs:
>>
>> Scenario: vFirewall (virtual Firewall) that is going to be deployed at
>> my IaaS Cloud Provider.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> My Google-Fu seems to indicate either XFS or JFS; what do you think?
>>
>> Rgds,
>>
>>
> The best fs for emerge is tmpfs on TMP_PORTDIR. I run box with tmpfs on
> both /var/tmp and /tmp and happy with it -)
Watch out that some ebuilds can and will fail if you exceed the
capacity of your tmpfs. Numerous factors will contribute to the space
required by portage during an emerge.
--
:wq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-06 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-06 17:26 [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable? Pandu Poluan
2011-09-06 17:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Pandu Poluan
2011-09-06 18:07 ` Florian Philipp
2011-09-06 18:15 ` [gentoo-user] " kashani
2011-09-07 12:25 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-09-07 22:15 ` kashani
2011-09-08 7:52 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-09-08 22:26 ` kashani
2011-09-06 18:55 ` Permjacov Evgeniy
2011-09-06 19:18 ` Michael Mol [this message]
2011-09-06 19:24 ` James Broadhead
2011-09-07 12:06 ` Florian Philipp
2011-09-07 12:23 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-09-07 12:28 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-09-07 21:24 ` Jesús J. Guerrero Botella
2011-09-09 7:36 ` Andrea Conti
2011-09-10 5:43 ` Walter Dnes
2011-09-11 21:02 ` Jesús J. Guerrero Botella
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