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 1R2rCe-0006Ss-Ia for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:04:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 391AC21C192; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E6821C0E9 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:02:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so3584509wyg.40 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:02:53 -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:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lvNHRmA9lpW2lzuaHMBj1QRWT9p3WBLsawyQKNE7iN0=; b=bxFi+zmx25h4WJIza2V8QujXicdwe2j9a571fLQ3009pjiwlHB2MEBuQbjaoSGW3FF V/KYe3DZ3x8aYmY53TYyMyHYG/TeaD+hnjFxg+h6RE6/quAQsfgye11UDfgu+ebwMA0P 1kxktvRWreTU1fXv1HwB2ce36YfQsW5eQzpLg= 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 10.216.135.208 with SMTP id u58mr1087450wei.110.1315774973623; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:02:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.179.206 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:02:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110910054306.GA7698@waltdnes.org> References: <20110910054306.GA7698@waltdnes.org> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:02:53 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable? From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jes=C3=BAs_J=2E_Guerrero_Botella?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 0ebe827e3ad9374f2cd2de842ee53bb7 It all comes down to what do you want to prioritize here. If you want minimal downtimes in case that there's a power source failure of any kind, then you probably want ext4 which will give you the fastest fsck times. Or, you might want to check into sqashfs on a flash drive for your rootfs and use whatever else for writable parts (/tmp,/var/log/, etc.), and update only when strictly necessary (GLSAs can probably help you there). After all, as someone else said above, this machine just needs to do one thing, and do it well. If you plan to make stage4/5/6 or whatever the trend is nowadays to name it, you don't even need portage or a toolchain in that box, and having it will only be a security risk since some rootkits comes in the form of a kernel module that needs to be compiled for your specific kernel and architecture (eliminating the kernel sources and the compiler you sort that out from the very root). In any case, the cpu won't be a limiting factor or a bottleneck, whatever your definitive choice shall be. --=20 Jes=C3=BAs Guerrero Botella