>DP> the problem is: pacman uses lots of small files that over time get >DP> spread over the whole paritition. i am not aware of any filesystem >DP> (except maybe for a database engine) that can manage to keep frequent >DP> usage of small files over time not fragmented with other things. if >DP> you can mention a (modern) file system that can do this in fact, i'm >DP> glad to hear it.
Most of files in pacman dir have size < 1 block, so there is no fragmentation. 312 files from 28087 on my machine have size > 4K. All of them (except 2 big .install files) are filelisting and placed in pacman/local directory. I wondered how pacman-optimize can optimize :O I think this is fortuitousness. :) >DP> btw: please on the mailinglist start a new thread if you have a new >DP> topic instead of replying inside another discussion. add the email >DP> address to your address book :) Ok)) _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
