Portage speed up

[whilo]

Have you read about this?

http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_ ... troduction

It helps keeping your system clean (unfragmented) and emerge slows down when your system get's older... Actually it's only some commands with a loop file.

Cheers,
whilo

[cvill64]

for disk speed I personally just use xfs

[whilo]

Xfs is great indeed. I still use it on my server. Especially the integrated fsck during boot is really nice.

The problem with Xfs is that it uses the head of the disc a lot and you can hear that. Ext3 is much more silent. Additionally you can resize ext3 partitions which is impossible with xfs. You can only increase partition size. Therefore I use ext3 for my root partition and xfs in the loop files for the small portage files.

The advantage of portage loop files are:

- (almost) no defragmentation of the main system
- much faster fsck for non xfs root file system
- easy to copy to other machines

Cheers,
whilo

[Darksurf]

Sabayon won't let me have a bootable XFS In 3.0b it was allowed, but now its not. What can I do to get around this???

[lxnay]

I've just uploaded the new installer that works with XFS, Darksurf.

[Darksurf]

Lxnay, You are awesome!!! Can't wait for the next release!!

[cvill64]

I have a / and /home as xfs on two sata drives and never hear them...odd

[whilo]

I have a / and /home as xfs on two sata drives and never hear them...odd

That's great for you. I can hear the head on my computer, my server and a friends laptop is a lot louder with Xfs. You can also read that somewhere on the Gentoo forum (ext3 thread?). As I already said, I like Xfs, but it has some drawbacks and you can optimize ext3 a lot. We will also have ext4 very soon, which is downwards compatible to ext3. Featurewise they are almost the same.

Besides: Reiser4 will be most likely in 2.6.20 and Zfs is currently ported to Fuse. I hope they implement it natively. This would rock...

Cheers,
whilo

[oc12]

I'm running a Raptor in my pc and its not noisy, when I convert massive video files (2-8 gigs) for couple hours at a time. I do feel it working when I put my hand on the case. The only noise I hear is from the fans. Then again I built my computer and have a wide range of hdds. WD, Seagate, Hitachi and 2003-2006.

Is JFS on the list of choices? That is the second best file system. Perhaps that will work better for you.

[cvill64]

well yes, I do agree on hearing it with ide based hard drives, but with my satas I don't

yes, jfs is a choice