LVM Religious Wars

[bill.n1vux at gmail.com (Bill Ricker)]

> /var is reiserfs for some reason.
> still running gentoo on that machine?


Yes, and I picked up a "powered by Gentoo" sticker at the booth to cover the
"Made for Windows" logo with. I'm still thinking of updating to Ubuntu
Dapper, but am getting sufficiently used to Gentoo & XFCE's charms that I'm
not fully committed to that plan. The Flight 6 Live-CD behaved nicely, the
number of things that work out of the box is quite nice, but I've been
configuring a print-server and other "home" chores, so  Gentoo has a stay of
execution for now.

gentoo does all it's compiling in /var/tmp/portage


Gentoo does do quite a bit of compiling! (Today's emerge wasn't smooth, took
a backout & retry to get the wireless working again -- but it worked.)

and reiserfs speeds things up a lot.


Thank you for the explanation. That makes sense.

tho ext3's dir_index option
>
"Use hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large directories."
>

Good to know, but that sounds like that's even more useful for Mail folders
-- more related to size of directory than smallness or ephemeralness of the
file?

Why not use reiser for everything? Is ext3's journal more robust?



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Bill
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