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

[Pacho Ramos]

El mar, 27-03-2012 a las 14:34 -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev escribió:
> On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 20:01 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:49:00PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > > I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to create a
> > > separate partition for /usr/portage tree. I remember my first Gentoo
> > > systems had it inside / and that lead to a lot of fragmentation, much
> > > slower "emerge -pvuDN world" (I benchmarked it when I changed my
> > > partitioning scheme to put /usr/portage) separate and a lot of disk
> > > space lost (I remember portage tree reached around 3 GB of disk space
> > > while I am now running with 300MB)
> > >
> > > Could handbook suggest people to put /usr/portage on a different
> > > partition then? The only doubt I have is what filesystem would be better
> > > for it, in my case I am using reiserfs with tail enabled, but maybe you
> > > have other different setups.
> >
> > To be honest, I don't think it is wise to describe it in the Gentoo Handbook
> > just yet. I don't mind having it documented elsewhere, but the separate
> > partition is not mandatory for getting Gentoo up and running. The
> > instructions currently also just give an example partition layout and tell
> > users that different layouts are perfectly possible.
> >
> > We need to take into consideration what is needed (must) for a Gentoo
> > installation, what is seriously recommended (should), what is nice to have
> > (could), etc. And for me, having a separate /usr/portage is a nice-to-have
> > imo.
[...]
> 2. The handbook should mention that a separate small /usr/portage
> partition can noticeably improve performance for users with a rotational
> hard drive, and that it's not needed for solid-state drives. It should
> also mention that using Gentoo with a separate /usr/portage partition
> will require some additional configuration (such as changing DISTDIR and
> PKGDIR to avoid running out of space).
>
> -Alexandre.
>
>
>

This would be nice :D