From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISWid-0003m0-7v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:37:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l84BSD4e029521; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:28:13 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l84BKi44019743 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:20:45 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FEB865D54 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:20:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.092 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.092 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.093, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7fYnGDy3R7Fv for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:20:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E8E65DCC for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:20:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ISWSN-0004Pg-QE for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:20:32 +0200 Received: from blueboticspc1.epfl.ch ([128.179.67.27]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:20:31 +0200 Received: from remy.blank by blueboticspc1.epfl.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:20:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Remy Blank Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM* Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:20:20 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20070902143233.GA9496@waltdnes.org> <200709041045.15256.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <200709041219.29325.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig4FC2C693CEA5382A864732D7" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: blueboticspc1.epfl.ch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: <200709041219.29325.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 563b535d-737b-4318-9228-f6a4983ef8f7 X-Archives-Hash: 8272ff7e603afeec63991bf63d6af12d This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig4FC2C693CEA5382A864732D7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alan McKinnon wrote: > You have software compiled in the kernel, not as a module the, right? Correct. > A reduce might be a different case altogether. BUT, it's not an=20 > especially different operation to a defrag on Windows, and I have yet=20 > to see a Windows admin debate whether he should defrag or not based on = > the possibility of losing power halfway through... I only ever defrag drives that are either on a laptop, or a server with a UPS. You can't be too careful on Windows... > emerged openoffice lately? :-) Nope, only openoffice-bin. Can't see a reason to have the fan of my laptop blow like hell for 12 hours in a row, when I can have it in a few seconds :-) The /var/tmp/portage argument is still a valid one, though. > Performance wise, it does well. The LVM and mdamd layers do their work = > in a fraction of the time it takes to get the data on/off the disk=20 > platters. In fact, Linux software usually outperforms most of those=20 > stupid el-cheapo we-say-it's-hardware-raid-but-actually-isn't raid=20 > controllers in low end hardware Thanks a lot for your feedback. I think you and Neil triggered yet another server reorganization (but it seems like this will be the last on= e). -- Remy --------------enig4FC2C693CEA5382A864732D7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFG3T90CeNfIyhvXjIRAovGAKCV4dnGsnrJN2t0j1WxyTCKwJjzDQCgsMrJ 3yNWVIjBU99cF+k4Wl1vGA0= =sX/u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig4FC2C693CEA5382A864732D7-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list