YoYo Siska writes:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 03:35:05PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > I use an ext2 filesystem for portage, it's still the fastest out
> > there. Journals are unnecessary because its such a small filesystem,
> > and if it does get damaged I can just reformat and sync again.
Replaying a reiserfs journal in case of an unclean reboot also takes about
the same time as an whole e2fsck, so I switched to ext2. There was no
real need to make the switch, I just wanted to re-create this file system
that has been synced very often now.
> I use an ext2 partition in a 500MB file image on most of my computers.
I also did this in the past, on systems where I did not use LVM. Nowadays
I prefer the latter.
> Its important to check the inode count on such small filesytem, as
> mke2fs' default inode ration for such size is 4096, which is too
> low for portage:
Yes, happened to me more than once...
> mke2fs -f -b1024 -i2048 /usr/img_portage
That's what I did. Well, without the container file.
Thanks to all who replied! I learnt something, like so often when reading
here.
Wonko
