On 3/21/2014 9:53 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
Hi,
Since I don't have a laptop, I'm thinking of installing Gentoo on my
USB 3 pen drive. I'll use binpkgs from my desktop so that pen drive
lives long.
Has anybody tried Samsung's F2FS? I heard it performs better than the
traditional ext4/xfs/etc on flash drives.
Also the pen drive will be used on random hardware (which can be a
laptop or a desktop), so what else do I need to consider other than
using genkernel's default configuration (the livecd config, which
enables all modules)?
FWIW, I've been F2FS plus encryption with Arch and haven't had any
problems. I'd suggest having anything important backed up somewhere else
since it's still seen as experimental (I think).
If you're using it on random hardware and want X, you'll have to include
the variety of video cards you might run into (Intel, ATI, Nvidia) in
your USE flags.
Also, be wary of the predictable naming for network interfaces (enp5s0,
enp9s2,etc). You might want to disable that feature using something like
"net.ifnames=0" in your bootloader or a udev rule so you can just set
eth0 to DHCP and it will work on most machines.
