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On Thursday 10 May 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> 3) Better still, |
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> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage#Make_A_Sparse_File_to_ |
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>create_portage_in |
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I never understood why portage on a sparse file is beneficial. Mine is |
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on a small reiser logival volume mounted with option "tail". It's just |
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big enough to hold portage with 10-15% free space (the tree doesn't |
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expand that much over time). |
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Care to elabortae on the benfits you get doing it your way? |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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