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On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 03:35:05PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:30:15 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > Any tips on this? Does it make sense to use a special file system just |
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> > for the portage tree? What would be best? Would it help to re-create |
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> > this file system from time to time in case it gets slower with every |
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> > sync? |
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> I use an ext2 filesystem for portage, it's still the fastest out there. |
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> Journals are unnecessary because its such a small filesystem, and if it |
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> does get damaged I can just reformat and sync again. |
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I use an ext2 partition in a 500MB file image on most of my computers. |
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Its important to check the inode count on such small filesytem, as |
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mke2fs' default inode ration for such size is 4096, which is too |
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low for portage: |
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dd bs=$((500*1024*1024)) count=1 if=/dev/zero of=/usr/img_portage |
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mke2fs -f -b1024 -i2048 /usr/img_portage |
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fstab: |
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/usr/img_portage /usr/portage/ ext2 loop,noatime 0 0 |
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(this is from desktop, on servers I usually only mount it manually when |
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emerging) |
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# df -h |
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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/dev/loop0 469M 306M 139M 69% /usr/portage |
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# df -i |
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Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on |
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/dev/loop0 256032 152044 103988 60% /usr/portage |
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yoyo |
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