Hello list,
I've been reading a lot about filesystems and tunning Gentoo to make it
perform faster and more efficiently.
I've been using a combination of what D. Robbnins explains in his
articles. Basically a separate "reiserfs" partition mounted in
"/mnt/rwstrg" that contains "portage, src, var and tmp" as explained here:
http://www.funtoo.org/en/articles/linux/partitioning/2/
Instead of creating symlinks to /var and /tmp I've opted for doing "bind
mounts" to these directories because I think it's more manageable this
way. Also I'm taking into consideration the same approach for portage
(instead of modifying the variables in /etc/make.conf).
The only thing that makes me follow the same path for /usr/src is also
manageability.
I've been googling a lot about this with no success trying to find out
what would be better (faster), if using symbolic links or bind mounts. I
also mailed Mr. Robbins but haven't received an answer and honestly I
don't I will.
I'm not a guru on the field, I've read somewhere that using symbolic
links has its drawbacks because the applications have to map to the
proper file/dir location on every access (and I never liked them).
Hope someone could guide me with this.
Thanks.
