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Philippe Coulonges <cphil@×××××.net> writes: |
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> Do you mean that you frequently rsync your portage tree just for fun on |
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> your servers ? |
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> I don't see why portage should change in a context where you don't |
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> intend to upgrade. And if you upgrade, you'll have to mount your /usr rw |
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> anyway. |
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More importantly, however, one purpose of having /var on a separate |
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partition is to limit fragmentation of /usr and the rest of the |
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filesystem. Because of the nature of the portage tree (many small |
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files, frequent changes and frequent addition and removal of files), it |
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leads to fragmentation and therefore is better suited for /var. |
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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard |
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