[gentoo-amd64] Symlinks vs. Bind mounts.

[Juan Fco. Giordana]

Hello list,

I've been reading a lot about filesystems and tunning Gentoo to make it 
perform faster and more efficiently.

I've been using a combination of what D. Robbnins explains in his 
articles. Basically a separate "reiserfs" partition mounted in 
"/mnt/rwstrg" that contains "portage, src, var and tmp" as explained here:

http://www.funtoo.org/en/articles/linux/partitioning/2/

Instead of creating symlinks to /var and /tmp I've opted for doing "bind
mounts" to these directories because I think it's more manageable this
way. Also I'm taking into consideration the same approach for portage
(instead of modifying the variables in /etc/make.conf).

The only thing that makes me follow the same path for /usr/src is also
manageability.

I've been googling a lot about this with no success trying to find out 
what would be better (faster), if using symbolic links or bind mounts. I 
also mailed Mr. Robbins but haven't received an answer and honestly I 
don't I will.

I'm not a guru on the field, I've read somewhere that using symbolic
links has its drawbacks because the applications have to map to the 
proper file/dir location on every access (and I never liked them).

Hope someone could guide me with this.

Thanks.