On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Kyle Bader kyle.ba...@gmail.com wrote:
- SSD vs 1rpm vs big-and-cheap hard drive for rootfs/system files.
I lean toward the latter since RAM caches it anyway.
SSDs can make things snappier for boot times. Having lots of ram for
disk cache eliminates the
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:34:34PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote
I had this once on a smaller machine, but now I'd prefer it the other way
around, there's plenty of space available. I have 15G for distfiles and
pkgdir, so I don't worry about some 100MB for the portage tree.
I managed to
Alex Schuster writes:
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I
use.
I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit
from the notail option in reiserfs?
Alex Schuster writes:
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I
use.
I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit
from the notail option in reiserfs?
Argh, sorry for the previous posts. I had some sort of Ctrl-lock, that is,
the keyboard acted as if Ctrl was pressed all the time. Now I know that
Ctrl+Enter is a shortcut to send an email. I accidentally closed some
shells by pressing the D key.
I was able to get rid off it by switching to a
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
- best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small
cluster size maybe.
I think reiserfs with the notail option is recommended.
The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:52:55PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
- best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small
cluster size maybe.
I think reiserfs with the notail option is
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I
use.
I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit from
the notail option in reiserfs?
They benefit compared with using reiser with tail-packing.
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I
use.
I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit from
the notail option in reiserfs?
They benefit compared with using
Willie Wong writes:
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:52:55PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit from
the notail option in reiserfs? Did you change the block size?
You mean the other way around, right?
Oh dear. Yes. Thanks.
reiser
Paul Hartman writes:
- utilizing device labels and/or volume labels instead of hoping
/dev/sda stays /dev/sda always
Good idea. Or use LVM.
- better partitioning scheme than my current root, boot, home (need
portage on its own, maybe /var as well?)
I like to have many partitions. When my
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
- best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small
cluster size maybe.
I think reiserfs with the notail option is recommended.
The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I use.
There's no need for
On 2 March 2010 10:10, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
- best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small
cluster size maybe.
I think reiserfs with the notail option is recommended.
The data I've seen
Am Freitag 26 Februar 2010 schrieb Paul Hartman:
Hi, I'm building a new personal computer. I respect the opinion and
experience of the people on this list and am interested in anyone's
advice on the best way to set up my new Gentoo installation. Things
that you say I wish I set mine up this
Hi, I'm building a new personal computer. I respect the opinion and
experience of the people on this list and am interested in anyone's
advice on the best way to set up my new Gentoo installation. Things
that you say I wish I set mine up this way the first time... or have
learned from experience
- be aware of cylinder boundaries when partitioning (thanks to the
recent thread)
+1
- utilizing device labels and/or volume labels instead of hoping
/dev/sda stays /dev/sda always
+1
- initrd - I've never used one, but maybe it's needed if root is on
software RAID?
It's not technically
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:54:13AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
- better partitioning scheme than my current root, boot, home (need
portage on its own, maybe /var as well?)
/var if you are worried about log files piling up. I don't put portage
on its own, but I use reiserfs for /
- some kind
- Original Message
From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Some topics I'm thinking about (comments welcome):
- be aware of cylinder boundaries when partitioning (thanks to the
recent thread)
- utilizing device labels and/or volume labels
Paul Hartman wrote:
- some kind of small linux emergency/recovery partition? equivalent to
a liveCD maybe.
Tiny core linux on the boot folder/part. Its all in a single small file.
Or any other tips that apply to things which are difficult to change
once the system is in use.
I moved
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