Dale writes: > Same here. I use ext3 and reiserfs, depending on what it is, but /boot > is always ext2. Why, it works well with grub and has for many many > years and most likely will for many years to come as well. > > As for making things the same, that my not always be a good idea > either. I put some things on reiserfs but some on ext3. It seams each > file system has its strengths and weaknesses. I read that portage, with > a lot of small files, does better on ext* file systems. So I put > portage on that. Most everything else is on reiserfs.
It's the other way around here - all ext3 except for /boot, but the portage tree is on reiserfs. Which is said to be very fast when dealing with lots of small files, because files under 4K are stored directly in the inodes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS#Performance Wonko
