Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:25:50
Message-Id: 4F4EEBE9.9050509@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates by John
1 John wrote:
2 >
3 > Wouldn't this particular topic be best answered by the dev's of said file systems and
4 > what, if any, fragmentation etc, could and can and will happen with the different
5 > arguments ie -m 0, etc.? All it is now between everyone discussing this here in a Gentoo
6 > list is more or less conjecture, at least what I've read from most posts. Wouldn't the
7 > people who make up, design and take care of the file systems in discussion be the best
8 > ones to simply ask?
9 >
10 > Not meaning to 'end' the discussion, just curious as to why no one has gone to those who
11 > would know best and brought it up and seeked out the answer(s) from them instead of people
12 > who only can guesstimate here. So don't get mad, get glad, heh heh.
13 >
14 >
15
16
17 I think one reason may be this, there are people on this list that have
18 more experience than a lot of devs. By that, I mean real life
19 experience. Sometimes what devs expect doesn't actually happen in real
20 life situations. For example, when testing a file system and how it
21 frags, large files, small files or medium size files? Are these files
22 changing or once saved they never change?
23
24 So, sometimes asking a person who actually uses something can have
25 better advice than the person that created it.
26
27 Just saying.
28
29 Dale
30
31 :-) :-)
32
33 --
34 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
35 how you interpreted my words!
36
37 Miss the compile output? Hint:
38 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"