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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:16:34 +0100 |
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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> You get a speed hit every time you run emerge, I get it once, where |
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> the computer syncs, which is handled by a cron task anyway. |
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It's true, it's a little slower for me and a few gigs more wasted space |
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(depending on the number of computers) for you. A fair trade-off, |
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either way. |
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> It also means I can speed up portage further by using ext2 on a |
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> sparse file |
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FWIW, I can do this on the server. Or I can use a Reiser partition |
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with a small (1024) block size. |
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just out of curiosity, would you be interested in running a benchmark |
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to see how my reiser partition (it would be on the server, local) |
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compared to your sparsefiled ext2? |
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