I said I'd come back with some results Here we go...
Test bed was an old Compaq 700us, my personal war machine. It sports an amd
Athlon 4, 1600 with 512meg and a 20gig hard drive. No scsi on this machine,
just plain old eide...
I mad a number of runs with portage, only had time to work on
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 23:52 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
> I now have the entire conversion process committed to a bash script... I'll
> start some simple bench marks tomorrow if I can.
That would be great. Please post when you have the time
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Ow Mun Heng
Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz
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On Tuesday 12 April 2005 11:51 pm, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> One possibly severe disadvantage I can see is losing the whole tree due
> to corruption of the loop file (it happens). Then again, it will be
> smaller and easier to backup!
>
I've been working with encrypted loops for a year or two now and
One possibly severe disadvantage I can see is losing the whole tree due
to corruption of the loop file (it happens). Then again, it will be
smaller and easier to backup!
BillK
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 23:36 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
> I found an way to speed up portage and save some drive space
I found an way to speed up portage and save some drive space at the same
time
The first thing I tried... I happened to have some spare room on a scsi
harddrive and simply moved /usr/portage and /var/db to the scsi drive. Then
created links from the scsi pointing back to the original locati
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