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From: Bryan Whitehead <driver@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:16:48
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.63.0509281608030.9026@beavis.megahappy.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree by "Hemmann
1 I've lost 5 filesystems on reiser... So I won't touch it anymore. :P :(
2
3 I'm all XFS and so far have not many problems (with over 100 machines in
4 production). My favorite part about XFS is snapshotting and a working dump
5 command for mounted filesystems...
6
7 On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
8
9 > On Thursday 29 September 2005 00:32, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
10 >>> no, but I noticed, that reiserfs needs much less space with small files
11 >>> (like portage tree) than ext2/3.
12 >>
13 >> The only problem with this "solution" is you are then stuck using
14 >> reiserfs...
15 >>
16 >> </fsflamewar> :D
17 >
18 > better than stuck with ext3 ;)
19 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=OPEN&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=ext3&field0-0-1=component&type0-0-1=substring&value0-0-1=ext3&field0-0-2=short_desc&type0-0-2=substring&value0-0-2=ext3&field0-0-3=status_whiteboard&type0-0-3=substring&value0-0-3=ext3
20 >
21 > they are ALL buggy - choose your poison ;)
22 >
23 > I have choosen reiser, because space is important for me - and I have a nice
24 > tape-drive, which makes backup/restore very easy... but to be honest, I never
25 > had reiserfs-bugs.. only hardware errors...
26 >
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