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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: pacho@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 12:15:48
Message-Id: 20130721141550.408910e4@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook by Pacho Ramos
1 Dnia 2013-07-21, o godz. 14:06:12
2 Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> napisał(a):
3
4 > El dom, 21-07-2013 a las 13:57 +0200, Michał Górny escribió:
5 > [...]
6 > > 5. I have doubts about 'emerge -1vDtu @world' speed. It is very
7 > > subjective feeling but I feel like reiserfs was actually faster in this
8 > > regard. However, space savings would surely benefit our users.
9 > >
10 >
11 > I also feel it faster (or, at least, not slower) with reiserfs, but
12 > going from ~300 MB to 79. Not sure if it would benefit from putting
13 > squashed image in a different filesystem (it was placed in /root, that
14 > is ext4 in my case). Maybe it would be faster if generated image was put
15 > in /var/tmp/portage (that is tmpfs in my case)
16
17 Using different block size may make a difference. I suspect that most
18 important reason for the slowdown is due to random accesses.
19
20 --
21 Best regards,
22 Michał Górny

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