On Friday 05 May 2006 12:14, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Hi all, > First of all I'm sorry for not replying to this thread as I > was busy with my exams. > > Anyway thanks for all your replies, I just want to present the > my file system requirements in more elaborate way. I'll be using many > partitions for different types of files to get maximum performance. As > said earlier it's a Home Desktop System. From what I've read I'll be > using the following file systems.. > > /dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 > > No changes to /boot partition I guess.. > > /dev/ROOT / reiserfs noatime,notail 0 1 > > Since ROOT partition hold many small files I guess ReiserFS suits it > best, but the problem is of fragmentation. Turning notail off solves it?
when you turn of tails, the advantage on small files is lost. Since you are using a portage-partition, fragmentation should not be an issue. (btw, as long as you don't go over 80% full, fragmentation is not really an issue). > /dev/PORTAGE /mnt/portage reiserfs noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec,notail 0 2 since /usr/portage can be 'killed' and repoplulated after that easiyl (mkreiserfs, emerge sync), there is no need for notail too. If it becomes too fragmented, just nuke it. There is nothing in /usr/portage, that can not be restored with an emerge sync. -- [email protected] mailing list
