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On 11/05/2014 14:29, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Sunday 11 May 2014 18:43:53 William Kenworthy wrote: |
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>> One reason I am moving from reiserfs is bitrot - I can see that reiserfs is |
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>> losing favour. |
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> I'd been given that impression too, so a month or two ago I converted my few |
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> reiserfs partitions to ext4. When I came to restoring the /usr/portage |
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> partition from backup I had to double its size to fit the files in (or I could |
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> have tried fiddling with the arguments to mkfs.ext4, but resizing was easier at |
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> the time). |
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Reiserfs bitrot was always a sad thing for me with the portage tree. |
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Reiser always truly excelled at storing, accessing and deleting |
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thousands of small files, just like the tree contains. |
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Like you, I ended up making my ext4 volumes for the tree twice as big |
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and got over it. I still miss the reiser performance though |
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Alan McKinnon |
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