On 21 August 2011 03:46, Andrea Conti <a...@alyf.net> wrote: >> If you run man mke2fs, you should check out -N and -i. It was >> trial-and-error (for me, anyway) to find the right number. > > Consider using reiserfs for /usr/portage. No real performance advantage > over ext[234], but works well with lots of small files and there's no > inode count to worry about. > > In my experience the main downside of reiserfs is that fsck.reiserfs is > almost never able to recover cleanly if the filesystem metadata does get > corrupted in a non-trivial way. But for the portage snapshot this isn't > really a problem...
I have always used ReiserFS for everything but /boot. That explains why I never ran into the inode issue, I guess. I'm trying to install AMD64 and the handbook says that ([1]) "JFS and ReiserFS may work but need more testing. If you're really adventurous you can try the other filesystems.". That didn't sound too promising so I went with ext3. :-) The X86 handbook doesn't have this text. Is ReiserFS on AMD64 really only for the adventurous? Or should this warning be removed? [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=4#filesystemsdesc
