Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

[Pacho Ramos]

El sáb, 31-03-2012 a las 08:44 +0000, Sven Vermeulen escribió:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:06:18AM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > Looks then that there are several alternatives for portage tree, then,
> > maybe the option would be to add a note to Gentoo Handbook explaining
> > the cons of having portage tree on a standard partition and, then, put a
> > link to a wiki page (for example) where all this alternatives are
> > explained.
> >
> > What do you think about this approach?
>
> I don't like the "cons" approach, as it gives the impression that users are
> pushed into a negative solution, whereas the current situation works just
> fine for almost all users. The approach for a different partition is for
> performance reasons (which most users don't have any negative feelings
> about) and as such might be read as a "ricer" approach.
>
> But perhaps it would be more "lean" to just start with a wiki page (or
> document) for alternative / better partitioning layouts, and when that has
> stabilized then we can talk about Handbook integration, not?
>
> Wkr,
> 	Sven Vermeulen
>
>

Current solution works but causes a really slow portage tree when ages
passes (I still have a machine with tree in / and is really really slow
but, since it's used by my father at his job, I am unable to solve
it :( ). And not, I don't think it's a ricer approach at all, it's for
performance and for save a lot of disk space too.

About the wiki page, I can only document reiserfs+tail usage as it's the
one I use and I know, about other alternatives like using squashfs, loop
mount... I cannot promise anything as I simply don't know how to set
them.