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On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:04:41AM -0600, Daniel Goller wrote: |
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> Francesco Riosa wrote: |
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> >In addition to "Manifest" files in portage tree there are 19000 |
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> >"digest-${P}" files in the portage tree each of this uses 4k on ext{2,3} |
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> >filesystem and has to be scanned each time rsync is run on the tree. |
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> >Is possible to avoid the use of theese files? |
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> while not technically what you asked for, keeping the tree on a |
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> partition with a smaller than default block and inode size would allow |
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> you to decrease wasted space significantly, ext3 does 1024 in linux |
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> iirc, docs suggest 512 should be possible, but i have not found a fs on |
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> linux that did indeed allow actual use of 512byte blocks/inodes (yes you |
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> want to make sure to adjust both, not just one) |
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> hope this helps while people consider integrating them elsewhere to safe |
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> the most space possible |
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As a workaround, I have my CVS checkout of the tree on a reiser3 |
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partition with tail-packing enabled. This really helps, esp. as CVS has |
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4 files of overhead for per working directory. I'm not aware of any |
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other tail-packing read-write filesystems unfortunately. (I know that |
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read-only ones like squashfs etc. exist). |
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