Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

[Mike Kazantsev]

On Fri, 29 May 2009 19:39:09 -0600
Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@×××××.com> wrote:

> Just got back from Circuit City or whatever it's called with a 16G SD
> card and I'm steeling myself for the big task ahead. Just what do you
> have under root? How did you format the rest?

ext4 or reiserfs for root.

reiserfs for portage and tmp (usually used by ccache).
I choose reiser here because it has the best small-file performance,
can use tail packing to save space on working with small files and you
never ever have to worry about inode shortage.
ccache, portage and tmp/portage are thousands of small files.

On this laptop:

/dev/mapper/aux-root on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime,acl) [ 5.2G / 10G ]
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,noatime) [ 114M / 183M ]
/dev/mapper/prime-varz on /var type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime) [ 519M / 2G ]
/dev/mapper/prime-core on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime) [ 4.8G / 10G ]
/dev/mapper/aux-extent on /mnt/extent type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime) [ 6.6G / 10G ]
/dev/mapper/aux-stash on /mnt/stash type reiserfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime) [ 8G / 30G ]
/dev/mapper/aux-tmp on /var/tmp type reiserfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime) [ 3G / 10G ]
/dev/mapper/aux-portage on /usr/portage type reiserfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime) [ 800M / 3G ]
/dev/mapper/aux-iwd on /mnt/stash/wine/iwd type xfs (rw,noatime) [ 2.2G / 5G ]
/dev/mapper/aux-fallout on /mnt/stash/wine/fallout type xfs (rw,noatime) [ 600M / 5G ]

"prime" is an LVM group on encrypted (dmcrypt) partition (/root and /etc
repository are symlinked to /home).
/opt and /usr/games are symlinked to /mnt/extent/, since they are quite
heavy.
xfs lvs are case-insensitive, so it allows to use any native linux
tools (like WeiDU) on wine-accessed files, without having to convert
their case.

LVM is a sorta godsend for me here ;)

-- 
Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net