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From: James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge
performance, and stable?
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On 6 September 2011 19:55, Permjacov Evgeniy <permeakra@gmail.com> 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