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On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:40:15 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > If it's diskless, where are /tmp and /var/tmp mounted? If they use |
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> > tmpfs the "memory" usage is understandable. If they use NFS the |
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> > emerges must be unbearably slow. |
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> For normal usage, they are in tmpfs along with portage but I mount them |
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> over nfs for larger packages as memory is too constrained (just comment |
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> out the lines in fstab) - most packages take much less than a hundred mb |
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> or so for the storage unless its glibc or the like. After a reboot they |
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> are using no space (of course) and it just takes a sync to replace |
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> portage and I use http-replicator on the network so distfiles are not a |
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> problem. |
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So root is on another (more powerful?) machine and mounted over NFS? Why |
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not chroot into the root on the host machine and run the emerge there? |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Last words of a Windows user: = Why does that work now? |
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