On 5 May 2014 21:51, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:41:40PM +0200, Frans de Boer wrote: >>> >>> >>> @Bruce, so maybe it is timing. Maybe it is timing combined with the type >>> of >>> processor. You use a i7 and I use an AMD Phenom II 965. Your SBU's are >>> also >>> about 60% compared to my machine. >>> >> Interesting. My phenom is still using gcc-4.8 (I bought it for >> building development versions of the books, but it is running out of >> partitions - that is down to details of my backup process : rsync >> over nfs to a staging area on my server, then create something akin >> to generation data groups for the real backups on a different >> filesystem [ยน] and isn't going to change in the near future). > > > Partitions or disk space? If you use gpt, it can create 128 partitions by > default and more if you really want to. > >
Or, using btrfs will provide an almost infinitely expandable storage pool with subvolumes and snapshots. It seems pretty stable now to me. Richard -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
