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Alex Alexander wrote: |
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> you would need a separate partition for /var/tmp/portage with special |
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> settings to be safe... even then, if you can afford the ram, tmpfs is |
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> probably a better solution. |
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I use such settings on my machine all the time, with no problems |
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whatsoever until now. |
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It just requeires a little attention when rebooting ( have to wait about |
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a minute for machine to start booting at the end of the shutdown) and |
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even then only files that have been modified or written are ones at risk. |
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With notebook, power failure is much less of concern, so risks are much |
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lower. |
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> disk io is one of the worst bottlenecks in today's systems... |
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> no disk io > * =] |
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Which is more or less ext4 performance if files remain in RAM. When |
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memory pressure increases, ext4 wil just start writing to the files, |
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which can actually be faster than tmpfs <--> swap transfers... |
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