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On Tuesday 02 September 2008 21:14:25 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick schrieb: |
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> > On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:15:03 -0300, Ale wrote: |
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> >> I am thinking if i will get better performance mounting /var/tmp/ |
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> >> and/or /usr/portage in other partition. |
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> > I use ext2 for each of these, as it is the fastest filesystem and |
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> > journalling isn't needed for filesystems that contain temporary data. |
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> Of course, if your system crashes, you have to do an fsck which takes |
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> approx. 10s for a filled portage-tree on a 5400rpm HDD and I understand |
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> the time it takes increases with the size of the partition, not (or not |
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> only) with the number of files on it. |
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It increases with the number of blocks and inodes in use mostly. Which |
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generally does equate to bigger partitions take longer as they have more stuff |
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stored in them |
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> You should also consider putting them near the beginning of the disk. |
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> You can do this by booting a live-CD and use gparted to move your |
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> root-partition. |
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These days you have absolutely no guarantee that a partition is in the |
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location on the disk where the cylinder numbers imply they should be. Disk |
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manufacturers are free to put the bits of a disk that add up to this mythical |
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thing called a "cylinder" any place they like, as long as the mapping between |
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them is maintained. There is also no way I know of to ask a disk where a |
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specific sector actually resides. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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