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 1R11N3-0005Gz-1R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:31:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E46821C2F3; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:30:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D3921C361 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:24:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iabz21 with SMTP id z21so98356iab.40 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:24:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=1YhRAJQx3Uu/iT67M14QQV9wyaU7uys+wkbUnGSUCTg=; b=hAZseAaL2vjOR0UDsRgWX+fCaO/cjjFlSsCJ+H56IF3aEW0tL5++L2CScIZINGw5OK X8BzF4hbm05z3BiBikh3/++2iBhgrtQ9IFOTKRq6nPCEZXDoYyXYi5oeE1KDEn2s3I6H JIxozajmSFoKsKw0PbeU4vMD5rQRYatfpwAAQ= Received: by 10.231.66.10 with SMTP id l10mr10559429ibi.1.1315337090249; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:24:50 -0700 (PDT) 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 10.231.13.66 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:24:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E666C9C.8000605@gmail.com> References: <4E666C9C.8000605@gmail.com> From: James Broadhead Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 20:24:30 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 446f8fc777df9e863b6e5f7b7de45a5e On 6 September 2011 19:55, Permjacov Evgeniy wrote: > On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> 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. You would have to profile this, but I imagine that the best approach would be to compile in a RAM disk and copy. I think that you're probably trying to optimise the wrong part of this problem. As for ext3/ext4, the improvements to fsck alone make ext4 the FS of choice between the two. JB