El sáb, 31-03-2012 a las 19:25 -0400, Walter Dnes escribió: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:42:50AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote > > On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > About the wiki page, I can only document reiserfs+tail usage as it's the > > > one I use and I know, about other alternatives like using squashfs, loop > > > mount... I cannot promise anything as I simply don't know how to set > > > them. > > > > Squashfs is really simple to use: > > > > mksquashfs /usr/portage portage.squashfs > > mount -o loop portage.squashfs /usr/portage > > Don't the "space-saving filesystems" (squashfs, reiserfs-with-tail, > etc) run more slowly due to their extra finicky steps to save space? If > you really want to save a gigabyte or 2, run "eclean -d distfiles" and > "localepurge" after every emerge update. I've also cobbled together my > own "autodepclean" script that check for, and optionally unmerges > unneeded stuff that was pulled in as a dependancy of a package that has > since been removed. >
I have distfiles on a completely different dir and, using different partition for ages for portage tree hasn't show that space saving problems
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