From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R11EX-0004Fz-GO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:22:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF2AD21C307; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:21:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22FD21C1AD for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:18:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzs8 with SMTP id zs8so7745479bkb.40 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:18:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=a18Xn60KZeCb/RpKsvIwRt/NJAs+B0hdQd+9JwtUbDo=; b=nqD8Y6SxlLBkvghH/AfEvOAfQMtXjTDLys8CPF2Qg6VpIsw765gG0Zc+e5Aw7o4MrH 3FNw7QlAAoTxtXV4Tr6y1KoUK/XKOYmKZqVBqgM+smqZz2Z5wIdkWLzhKlVtuiIWxOwd LMfSEYdCUl+d+m7tnF7SGToM1Ar3xsbe9xWcA= 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 Received: by 10.204.4.138 with SMTP id 10mr3149500bkr.374.1315336708006; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:18:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.134.153 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:18:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E666C9C.8000605@gmail.com> References: <4E666C9C.8000605@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:18:27 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable? From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7bfe3c4a550971ae0ebbb7bbd67275c2 On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Permjacov Evgeniy 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