Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2007 10:41:04 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > 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? > > No idea, but I tried it when I encountered that page and portage > operations were measurably faster.
That might well be just the transfer effect: you went from an old fragmented file system to a fresh unfragmented one. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
