On Wednesday 28 September 2005 15:55, Harry Putnam wrote: > Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 14:43, glumtail wrote: > >> You can alway rm /usr/portage/distfiles/ > >> Those files can be downloaded again when emerge. > > > > Also, the block size of the file system in which /usr/portage lives can > > make a big difference. > > Try a clean /usr/portage on an ext2/3 filesystem vs. a /usr/portage on > > reiserfs and you'll see what I mean. > > I am using reiserfs but only on trial basis. I've noticed what > appears to be quite a large increase in time needed for fs intensive > things like du or rm -rf as compared to ext3 but I've done no real > comparison testing. > > Have you noticed that too?
no, but I noticed, that reiserfs needs much less space with small files (like portage tree) than ext2/3. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
