On 2 March 2010 10:10, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> > - best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small >> > cluster size maybe. >> >> I think reiserfs with the notail option is recommended. > > The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I use. > There's no need for journalling on the portage tree, it's small enough to > fsck quickly and if it does get broken, reformat and resync.
Over the years I've had /usr/portage on reiserfs (with tails and all) and xfs on laptops. New machine has reiser4. Seems blindingly fast, but that's no comparison because the machine is more modern. -- Regards, Mick
