Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] mount /usr/portage considered harmful?
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:40:47
Message-Id: 200510121941.51340.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] mount /usr/portage considered harmful? by Joshua ChaitinPollak
1 On Wednesday 12 October 2005 07:30 pm, Joshua ChaitinPollak wrote:
2 > On Oct 12, 2005, at 7:02 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > >> The bottom line is, I blew away my host computer's /usr/portage, and
4 > >> now have to recover it.
5 > >
6 > > and chances are you probably wont do it a second time ;)
7 >
8 > I won't, but other people will... why make them suffer?
9
10 it's simple enough to skip the bind mount step if you dont want to
11
12 > I don't suppose there's any other way around this, other than copies...
13
14 not really ... and copying around 500+ megs everytime is a real pita
15
16 > What if the mount was read-only? Does that work?
17
18 last i check you cant do read-only bind mounts
19 -mike
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