On 6 September 2011 19:55, Permjacov Evgeniy <permea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Disk I/O Characteristic: Occasional writes during 'normal' usage, >> once-a-week eix-sync + emerge -avuD >> Priority: Stable (i.e., less chance of corruption), least CPU usage.
You would have to profile this, but I imagine that the best approach would be to compile in a RAM disk and copy. I think that you're probably trying to optimise the wrong part of this problem. As for ext3/ext4, the improvements to fsck alone make ext4 the FS of choice between the two. JB