I said I'd come back with some results.... Here we go...
Test bed was an old Compaq 700us, my personal war machine. It sports an amd
Athlon 4, 1600 with 512meg and a 20gig hard drive. No scsi on this machine,
just plain old eide...
I mad a number of runs with portage, only had time to work on doing "emerge
sync". This stuff is quite time consuming and boreing as hell...
Anyway, average execution of "emerge sync" using the normal file based setup ,
was 17 minutes, 23 seconds. I made three "syncs" using a portage tree in bad
need of updating. Before each sync, a backup copy of portage was put in place
of the working directories. That way I could get the average time from three
exact sync sessions...
Moving everything to loops and using a copy of the above mentioned portage
backup, I then ran three more "emerge sync" sessions... Average execution
time was 9 minutes, 54 seconds. A savings of... perhaps 40% or so...
Big difference. Enough for me to use loops on all gentoo boxes that I host.
Cheers all and good night.
P.S. For those of you begining to complain about be bombing the Gentoo sync
servers... All emerge sync activites were made to my own, personal server...
Never even wen out on the internet... Cheers.
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