On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Permjacov Evgeniy <permea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> So, can anyone recommend me a filesystem that fulfills my following needs: >> >> Scenario: vFirewall (virtual Firewall) that is going to be deployed at >> my IaaS Cloud Provider. >> >> Disk I/O Characteristic: Occasional writes during 'normal' usage, >> once-a-week eix-sync + emerge -avuD >> >> Priority: Stable (i.e., less chance of corruption), least CPU usage. >> >> My Google-Fu seems to indicate either XFS or JFS; what do you think? >> >> Rgds, >> >> > The best fs for emerge is tmpfs on TMP_PORTDIR. I run box with tmpfs on > both /var/tmp and /tmp and happy with it -)
Watch out that some ebuilds can and will fail if you exceed the capacity of your tmpfs. Numerous factors will contribute to the space required by portage during an emerge. -- :wq
