On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:16:34 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You get a speed hit every time you run emerge, I get it once, where > the computer syncs, which is handled by a cron task anyway. It's true, it's a little slower for me and a few gigs more wasted space (depending on the number of computers) for you. A fair trade-off, either way. > It also means I can speed up portage further by using ext2 on a > sparse file FWIW, I can do this on the server. Or I can use a Reiser partition with a small (1024) block size. just out of curiosity, would you be interested in running a benchmark to see how my reiser partition (it would be on the server, local) compared to your sparsefiled ext2? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
