Hello Alan McKinnon, > I never understood why portage on a sparse file is beneficial. Mine is > on a small reiser logival volume mounted with option "tail". It's just > big enough to hold portage with 10-15% free space (the tree doesn't > expand that much over time).
It is faster. If I were going to use reiserfs (I use ext2 for this) I'd use it with notail, the tail packing impacts performance. I'm more interested in speed than saving disk space. -- Neil Bothwick We shall shortly be landing. Please return your stewardess to the upright position.
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