From: Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
To: Kai Krakow <hurikhan77+btrfs@gmail.com>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Migrate to bcache: A few questions
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 15:12:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C476B8.2040601@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52C1990D.9060704@gmail.com>
On 12/30/2013 11:02 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
>
> As an alternative to using bcache, you might try something simmilar to
> the following:
> 64G SSD with /boot, /, and /usr
> Other HDD with /var, /usr/portage, /usr/src, and /home
> tmpfs or ramdisk for /tmp and /var/tmp
> This is essentially what I use now, and I have found that it
> significantly improves system performance.
>
On this specific note, I would actually suggest against putting the
portage tree on btrfs, it makes syncing go ridiculously slow,
and it also seems to slow down emerge as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-01 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-29 21:11 Migrate to bcache: A few questions Kai Krakow
2013-12-30 1:03 ` Chris Murphy
2013-12-30 1:22 ` Kai Krakow
2013-12-30 3:48 ` Chris Murphy
2013-12-30 9:01 ` Marc MERLIN
2013-12-31 0:31 ` Kai Krakow
2013-12-30 6:24 ` Duncan
2013-12-31 3:13 ` Kai Krakow
2013-12-30 16:02 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-01-01 10:06 ` Duncan
2014-01-01 20:12 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn [this message]
2014-01-02 8:49 ` Duncan
2014-01-02 12:36 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-01-03 0:09 ` Duncan
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