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

[Kent Fredric]

On 28 March 2012 08:57, Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu> wrote:
>
> Could we amend this to also include the benefits of ZFS and why you
> would want to use XFS or reiserfs instead of ext{2,3,4} as your
> filesystem in situations where ZFS is not yet appropriate (e.g. using it
> on Gentoo stable)? We could also include documentation on Reiser4 while
> we are at it.

Thats probably asking a bit much, I've done my experimenting with
XFS/reiserfs , the benefits aren't that substantial to be worth the
hassle of the negatives. And as for Reiser4, if there's any
documentation mentioning that I think it being simply "Don't use
Reiser4" adequate enough.

Noob Level: Just Use Ext4
Intermediate: Just Use Ext4, use Ext3 or 2 if you want more something
else, but ext4 should do the trick
Advanced: Entertain the ideas of XFS/reiser if you want, but you're
not likely going to see a *lot* of difference over ext4 on its own
partition. Not in the long term.

I used to advocate JFS, but long term experience with it taught me JFS
is fast for new file systems, and gets progressively slower over time.
The original IBM JFS had a defrag tool nobody managed to port to Linux
so JFS just gets crufty and stays that way.


-- 
Kent

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