> > Over a whole system this can 
> > add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable.
> 
> This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage
> tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple
> 100 (one-zero-zero) megs!

OTOH, you may not need to switch to reiser for that.
It may simply be a matter of giving /usr/portage its own 
partition and a smaller block size.

I have no data on that, though.


ralf
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