On 13.12.2011 01:44, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On my system, /usr/portage currently contains 127000 files. But for reason of > increased performance I put it into a squashfs file. (There was a nice howto > on this ML some months ago). You could try that, which will free those inodes > up and ideally leaves you with one used inode for the squashfs image. Plus, if > you have enough RAM, you could put /var/tmp/portage into tmpfs. I have 3GB, > and this is fairly enough. For other hogs like firefox, LO and java, I use > binary packages though. > For comparision, I too have one (seldom two) kernel source trees and > everything > else on / except /home. And while of the 17GB capacity barely 1GB is left > free, > I still have 480k inodes free of the 1M in total. (I figured that I may have > more space for content if I reserved less for inodes). I had portage in a squashfs before too - that was nice :) That's also the reason I had /usr/portage /var/cache/edb and /var/db/pkg on one filesystem - all together in the squashfs :) Because one day my / became full I moved /usr/src onto that partition too (it was now on a reiser3fs). All fine, and other partitions less fragmented... until I moved to ext4.
Now I have a SSD, and it's simpler than squashfs'ing and still fast. distfiles is on a HDD (Thinkpad notebook with ultrabay - love it) and compilation on tmpfs (8GB RAM, so no problems). I always have like 8 kernel trees lying around, so there are already like 400k files... For various reasons I like to keep my stuff on separate partitions -> my system is distributed over 6 partitions and my personal data over 3 partitions :) That inode-trouble was actually quiet interesting ;) Daniel -- PGP key @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=0xBB9D4887&op=get # gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0xBB9D4887
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