Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Alan McKinnon, > >> I never understood why portage on a sparse file is beneficial. Mine is >> on a small reiser logival volume mounted with option "tail". It's just >> big enough to hold portage with 10-15% free space (the tree doesn't >> expand that much over time). > > It is faster.
Hm. I don't understand. Why is portage in a sparse file of, let's say, 400m, with reiserfs and notail mounted, faster, then a real partition of 400m with reiserfs and notail? What makes the sparse file faster? Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
