Austin S Hemmelgarn posted on Mon, 30 Dec 2013 11:02:21 -0500 as excerpted:
> I've actually tried a simmilar configuration myself a couple of times > (also using Gentoo in-fact), and I can tell you from experience that > unless things have changed greatly since kernel 3.12.1, it really isn't > worth the headaches. Basically what I posted, but "now with added real experience!" (TM) =:^) > As an alternative to using bcache, you might try something simmilar to > the following: > 64G SSD with /boot, /, and /usr Other HDD with /var, /usr/portage, > /usr/src, and /home tmpfs or ramdisk for /tmp and /var/tmp > This is essentially what I use now, and I have found that it > significantly improves system performance. Again, very similar to my own recommendation. Nice to see others saying the same thing. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html