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

[Pacho Ramos]

El sáb, 31-03-2012 a las 19:25 -0400, Walter Dnes escribió:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:42:50AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote
> > On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Squashfs is really simple to use:
> >
> >    mksquashfs /usr/portage portage.squashfs
> >    mount -o loop portage.squashfs /usr/portage
>
>   Don't the "space-saving filesystems" (squashfs, reiserfs-with-tail,
> etc) run more slowly due to their extra finicky steps to save space?  If
> you really want to save a gigabyte or 2, run "eclean -d distfiles" and
> "localepurge" after every emerge update.  I've also cobbled together my
> own "autodepclean" script that check for, and optionally unmerges
> unneeded stuff that was pulled in as a dependancy of a package that has
> since been removed.
>

I have distfiles on a completely different dir and, using different
partition for ages for portage tree hasn't show that space saving
problems