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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Hello Alan McKinnon, |
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>> I never understood why portage on a sparse file is beneficial. Mine is |
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>> on a small reiser logival volume mounted with option "tail". It's just |
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>> big enough to hold portage with 10-15% free space (the tree doesn't |
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>> expand that much over time). |
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> It is faster. |
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Hm. I don't understand. Why is portage in a sparse file of, let's say, |
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400m, with reiserfs and notail mounted, faster, then a real partition |
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of 400m with reiserfs and notail? |
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What makes the sparse file faster? |
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Alexander Skwar |
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