Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-10-03 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/09/2013 16:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the significance of its date? I use reiserfs on my Atom box for /var, /var/cache/squid and

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-10-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 03.10.2013 11:55, schrieb Kerin Millar: On 18/09/2013 16:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the significance of its date? I use reiserfs on my Atom

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-10-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 03 Oct 2013 10:55:12 Kerin Millar wrote: In my view, ReiserFS is only useful for saving space through tail packing. Unfortunately, tail packing makes it slower still (an issue that was supposed to be resolved for good in Reiser4). If I remember aright, I started using ReiserFS

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-10-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the significance of

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-10-03 Thread Kerin Millar
On 03/10/2013 13:08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 03.10.2013 11:55, schrieb Kerin Millar: On 18/09/2013 16:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-10-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 03.10.2013 18:32, schrieb Kerin Millar: On 03/10/2013 13:08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 03.10.2013 11:55, schrieb Kerin Millar: On 18/09/2013 16:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion,

[gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-09-18 Thread 东方巽雷
ext4?btrfs or reiserfs?

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 20:34:12 +0800, 东方巽雷 wrote: ext4?btrfs or reiserfs? tmpfs is you have the RAM. Otherwise ext2 would be a good bet, you don't need journalling or large file support for compilation. -- Neil Bothwick I'll never forget the 1st time I ran Windows, but I'm trying...

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-09-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the significance of its date? I use reiserfs on my Atom box for /var, /var/cache/squid and /usr/portage, and on my workstation for /usr/portage and /home/prh/.VirtualBox. It's never

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the significance of its date? I use reiserfs on my Atom box for /var, /var/cache/squid and /usr/portage, and on my workstation for

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-09-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 17:09:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the significance of its date? I use reiserfs on my Atom box for /var,