Am 06.09.2011 21:24, schrieb James Broadhead: > On 6 September 2011 19:55, Permjacov Evgeniy <permea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> 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. > > You would have to profile this, but I imagine that the best approach > would be to compile in a RAM disk and copy. I think that you're > probably trying to optimise the wrong part of this problem. > > As for ext3/ext4, the improvements to fsck alone make ext4 the FS of > choice between the two. > > JB >
Pandu is building a firewall. Putting a ton of RAM in it just for the sake for system updates is plain overkill and -- depending on his IaaS provider -- pretty expensive. Regards, Florian Philipp
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