Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 31-03-2012 a las 17:33 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: On 03/31/2012 04:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:42:50AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: About the wiki page, I can only document reiserfs+tail usage as it's the one I use

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-07-21, o godz. 13:42:17 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org napisał(a): El sáb, 31-03-2012 a las 17:33 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: On 03/31/2012 04:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:42:50AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: About

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 21-07-2013 a las 13:57 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: [...] 5. I have doubts about 'emerge -1vDtu @world' speed. It is very subjective feeling but I feel like reiserfs was actually faster in this regard. However, space savings would surely benefit our users. I also feel it faster (or,

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-07-21, o godz. 14:06:12 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org napisał(a): El dom, 21-07-2013 a las 13:57 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: [...] 5. I have doubts about 'emerge -1vDtu @world' speed. It is very subjective feeling but I feel like reiserfs was actually faster in this regard.

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/21/2013 01:42 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: Would be possible to generate and provide squashed files at the same time tarballs with portage tree snapshots are generated? mksquashfs can take a lot of resources depending on the machine, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread justin
On 7/21/13 4:26 PM, Michael Weber wrote: On 07/21/2013 01:42 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: Would be possible to generate and provide squashed files at the same time tarballs with portage tree snapshots are generated? mksquashfs can take a lot of resources depending on the machine, but providing the

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 21-07-2013 a las 16:46 +0200, justin escribió: On 7/21/13 4:26 PM, Michael Weber wrote: On 07/21/2013 01:42 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: Would be possible to generate and provide squashed files at the same time tarballs with portage tree snapshots are generated? mksquashfs can take a

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Zac Medico
On 07/21/2013 04:57 AM, Michał Górny wrote: a) unionfs-fuse doesn't support replacing files from read-only branch, Maybe you've got some kind of configuration problem (did you forget to enable the cow option?), because unionfs-fuse seems to work fine for me. -- Thanks, Zac

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-07-21, o godz. 11:00:46 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On 07/21/2013 04:57 AM, Michał Górny wrote: a) unionfs-fuse doesn't support replacing files from read-only branch, Maybe you've got some kind of configuration problem (did you forget to enable the cow option?),

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-04-01 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 31-03-2012 a las 19:25 -0400, Walter Dnes escribió: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:42:50AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: About the wiki page, I can only document reiserfs+tail usage as it's the one I use and I know, about other alternatives like

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-31 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:06:18AM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: Looks then that there are several alternatives for portage tree, then, maybe the option would be to add a note to Gentoo Handbook explaining the cons of having portage tree on a standard partition and, then, put a link to a wiki page

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-31 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 08:44:02AM +, Sven Vermeulen wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:06:18AM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: Looks then that there are several alternatives for portage tree, then, maybe the option would be to add a note to Gentoo Handbook explaining the cons of having

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-31 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 31-03-2012 a las 08:44 +, Sven Vermeulen escribió: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:06:18AM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: Looks then that there are several alternatives for portage tree, then, maybe the option would be to add a note to Gentoo Handbook explaining the cons of having portage

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-31 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 31-03-2012 a las 02:35 -0700, Brian Harring escribió: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 08:44:02AM +, Sven Vermeulen wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:06:18AM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: Looks then that there are several alternatives for portage tree, then, maybe the option would be to

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-31 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: About the wiki page, I can only document reiserfs+tail usage as it's the one I use and I know, about other alternatives like using squashfs, loop mount... I cannot promise anything as I simply don't know how to set them. Squashfs is really simple to

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:42:50AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: About the wiki page, I can only document reiserfs+tail usage as it's the one I use and I know, about other alternatives like using squashfs, loop mount... I cannot promise anything as I

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-31 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/31/2012 04:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:42:50AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: About the wiki page, I can only document reiserfs+tail usage as it's the one I use and I know, about other alternatives like using squashfs, loop

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
Will start to reply but will take some time as I don't have much this days :( El mar, 27-03-2012 a las 20:01 +0200, Sven Vermeulen escribió: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:49:00PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to create a separate partition

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mar, 27-03-2012 a las 14:34 -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev escribió: On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 20:01 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:49:00PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to create a separate partition for

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mar, 27-03-2012 a las 14:53 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 27/03/12 02:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org The partitioning scheme is something that the user needs

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mar, 27-03-2012 a las 16:05 -0400, Alec Moskvin escribió: On Tuesday 27 March 2012 14:34:03, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 20:01 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:49:00PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-28 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: But that's ok, because extensive studies have shown that the only possible reasons for putting /usr/portage on its own partition are historical, since everyone has an SSD now. Yeah, right. Since I must be the only one out there that

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Brian Dolbec dol...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: But that's ok, because extensive studies have shown that the only possible reasons for putting /usr/portage on its own partition are historical, since everyone has

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-28 Thread Kent Fredric
On 28 March 2012 20:16, Brian Dolbec dol...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: But that's ok, because extensive studies have shown that the only possible reasons for putting /usr/portage on its own partition are historical, since everyone has an SSD

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-28 Thread Richard Yao
On 03/28/12 03:16, Brian Dolbec wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: But that's ok, because extensive studies have shown that the only possible reasons for putting /usr/portage on its own partition are historical, since everyone has an SSD now. Yeah, right.

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-28 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: On 03/28/12 03:16, Brian Dolbec wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: But that's ok, because extensive studies have shown that the only possible reasons for putting /usr/portage on its own

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: On 03/28/12 03:16, Brian Dolbec wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: But that's ok, because extensive studies have shown that the only possible reasons for putting /usr/portage on its own

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-28 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 03/28/2012 03:16, Brian Dolbec wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: But that's ok, because extensive studies have shown that the only possible reasons for putting /usr/portage on its own partition are historical, since everyone has an SSD now. Yeah, right.

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-28 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 11:37 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: On 03/28/12 03:16, Brian Dolbec wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: But that's ok, because extensive studies have shown that the

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-28 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:49:00 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to create a separate partition for /usr/portage tree. I remember my first Gentoo systems had it inside / and that lead to a lot of fragmentation, much

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-28 Thread Dale
Joshua Saddler wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:49:00 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to create a separate partition for /usr/portage tree. I remember my first Gentoo systems had it inside / and that lead to a lot of

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:49:00PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to create a separate partition for /usr/portage tree. I remember my first Gentoo systems had it inside / and that lead to a lot of fragmentation, much slower emerge -pvuDN

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:49:00 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to create a separate partition for /usr/portage tree. I don't know whether you've heard, but PackageKit (a hard dependency of udev as of 185, to allow automatic

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/27/2012 02:01 PM, Sven Vermeulen wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:49:00PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to create a separate partition for /usr/portage tree. I remember my first

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 20:01 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:49:00PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to create a separate partition for /usr/portage tree. I remember my first Gentoo systems had it inside / and that

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org The partitioning scheme is something that the user needs to decide on *before* getting Gentoo up and running. After the user had finished installing the operating system, it's too late to inform him about the advantages

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 27/03/12 02:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org The partitioning scheme is something that the user needs to decide on *before* getting Gentoo up and running. After the user

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 27/03/2012 20:53, Ian Stakenvicius ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 27/03/12 02:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org The partitioning scheme is something that the user needs to decide on *before*

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/27/2012 02:53 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: On 27/03/12 02:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org The partitioning scheme is something that the user needs to decide on

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 27/03/12 03:04 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: You know, we have Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem Example in Section 4, we could always adjust that to have a /usr/portage partition in it (take a bit of space away from /home, or something) It

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 02:47:15PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org 1. ext4, not ext3, needs to be recommended as the default filesystem. We have kernel 3.2 marked stable, there is no need to keep talking about ext4 as if

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Kent Fredric
On 28 March 2012 07:53, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: You know, we have Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem Example in Section 4, we could always adjust that to have a /usr/portage partition in it (take a bit of space away from /home, or something) It doesn't recommend/require anything,

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Kent Fredric
On 28 March 2012 08:15, Sven Vermeulen sw...@gentoo.org wrote: Then again, Gentoo is about choice.  It just seems like we're presenting users with more choices than makes sense for a newbie.  If there is a choice between something that 99.99% of users will want, and some ancient piece of cruft

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:20:45AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: On 28 March 2012 08:15, Sven Vermeulen sw...@gentoo.org wrote: Then again, Gentoo is about choice.  It just seems like we're presenting users with more choices than makes sense for a newbie.  If there is a choice between

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/27/2012 03:13 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: On 27/03/12 03:04 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: You know, we have Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem Example in Section 4, we could always adjust that to have a /usr/portage partition in it (take a bit

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 02:29:34PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: Why not just the separate quick install guide like we have that lists steps and the handbook if yu want more details? We came from that. It means we need to start managing just the commands for each architecture. After a while,

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Richard Yao
On 03/27/12 14:34, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: The partitioning scheme is something that the user needs to decide on *before* getting Gentoo up and running. After the user had finished installing the operating system, it's too late to inform him about the advantages of a separate /usr/portage.

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Alec Moskvin
On Tuesday 27 March 2012 14:34:03, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 20:01 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:49:00PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to create a separate partition for /usr/portage

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Kent Fredric
On 28 March 2012 08:57, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: Could we amend this to also include the benefits of ZFS and why you would want to use XFS or reiserfs instead of ext{2,3,4} as your filesystem in situations where ZFS is not yet appropriate (e.g. using it on Gentoo stable)? We