On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:59:01 +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage > > tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple > > 100 (one-zero-zero) megs! > > OTOH, you may not need to switch to reiser for that. > It may simply be a matter of giving /usr/portage its own > partition and a smaller block size.
You would only save space like that if the partition was only just big enough to hold the portage tree. With the amount of file churn in the tree, the filesystem would get very fragmented very quickly. -- Neil Bothwick I don't know what makes you tick but I wish it was a time bomb.
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