From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKlAO-0003NV-Ed for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:16:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8SN8es8015070; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:08:40 GMT Received: from megahappy.net (82-182-31-216.tierzero.net [216.31.182.82] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8SN2mFB018751 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:02:49 GMT Received: by megahappy.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8FDD84C001; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:10:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by megahappy.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88EB368006 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:10:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:10:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryan Whitehead To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree In-Reply-To: <200509290050.51226.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: References: <87oe6d5q8s.fsf@newsguy.com> <200509281721.06072.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <200509290050.51226.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: ac4a1a15-6a8a-44e8-928f-64228cdae9e9 X-Archives-Hash: d35c5a88230a95809e9b164bbd6bb75d I've lost 5 filesystems on reiser... So I won't touch it anymore. :P :( I'm all XFS and so far have not many problems (with over 100 machines in production). My favorite part about XFS is snapshotting and a working dump command for mounted filesystems... On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Thursday 29 September 2005 00:32, Bryan Whitehead wrote: >>> no, but I noticed, that reiserfs needs much less space with small files >>> (like portage tree) than ext2/3. >> >> The only problem with this "solution" is you are then stuck using >> reiserfs... >> >> :D > > better than stuck with ext3 ;) > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=OPEN&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=ext3&field0-0-1=component&type0-0-1=substring&value0-0-1=ext3&field0-0-2=short_desc&type0-0-2=substring&value0-0-2=ext3&field0-0-3=status_whiteboard&type0-0-3=substring&value0-0-3=ext3 > > they are ALL buggy - choose your poison ;) > > I have choosen reiser, because space is important for me - and I have a nice > tape-drive, which makes backup/restore very easy... but to be honest, I never > had reiserfs-bugs.. only hardware errors... > -- Bryan Whitehead Email:driver@megahappy.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list