On 11/05/2014 14:29, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 11 May 2014 18:43:53 William Kenworthy wrote: > >> One reason I am moving from reiserfs is bitrot - I can see that reiserfs is >> losing favour. > > I'd been given that impression too, so a month or two ago I converted my few > reiserfs partitions to ext4. When I came to restoring the /usr/portage > partition from backup I had to double its size to fit the files in (or I > could > have tried fiddling with the arguments to mkfs.ext4, but resizing was easier > at > the time). >
Reiserfs bitrot was always a sad thing for me with the portage tree. Reiser always truly excelled at storing, accessing and deleting thousands of small files, just like the tree contains. Like you, I ended up making my ext4 volumes for the tree twice as big and got over it. I still miss the reiser performance though -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
