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Am 02.04.2014 16:10, schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> On 02/04/2014 14:27, Douglas J Hunley wrote: |
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>> I was reviewing my Portage settings yesterday and I noticed that I have |
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>> PORTAGE_COMPRESS set (to bzip2, the default) on both of my servers and |
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>> it occurred to me that both of these servers have filesystems that |
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>> support compression (btrfs on one, zfs on the other). So I'm wondering |
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>> if it still makes sense to have PORTAGE_COMPRESS set or if I should |
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>> unset it and just let the fs-level compression handle it. Portage is |
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>> already slow, why have it take the time to do this when the fs does it |
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>> better and transparently? Thoughts on the matter? |
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> I agree with your reasoning. |
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> PORTAGE_COMPRESS is an ugly hack to get doc files smaller and the need |
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> for it has long since gone away for the general case and it predates |
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> filesystems with compression anyway. So do let the fs deal with this |
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> transparently and avoid the cost of calling bunzip2 everytime you read a |
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> doc. |
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Where did you find PORTAGE_COMPRESS? I just checked /etc/portage and |
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some other locations but without luck. Also its not documented. Can you |
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give me a hint. |
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~frukto |
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