rullzer

Today I was talking to Sander about file system block sizes. And that the portage tree is actually way to big, at least when stored on disk. We remembered a blog post from Diego (a gentoo developer).

Long story short I now have a separate partition for portage (not my distfiles) on my laptop with a block size of 1KiB. This results in a portage tree that is only less than half the size of the previous portage tree! I have not done any timing measurements but it also seems that syncing the portage tree is now much faster! So if you have your portage tree on a separate partition (or want to play with resize2fs) why not change the block size to 1KiB?