Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner <vorner@×××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:59:20
Message-Id: 20070420105147.GA2362@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo? by Neil Bothwick
1 Hello
2
3 On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:35:25PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
4 > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:01:24 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
5 > > > portage can use any directory you like for its workspace, you don't
6 > > > have to remote mount /var to achieve this. You could mount /var/tmp
7 > > > over NFS, but setting PORTAGE_TMPDIR is less kludgy.
8 > >
9 > > Well, seems on the same level for me, but that is only personal
10 > > preference.
11 >
12 > It's not the same at all. you are advocating mounting the whole of /var
13 > on a networked filesystem, which could affect the performance of the
14 > system as a whole.
15
16 Yes, which I was glad - the NFS filesystem was faster than local disk :D
17
18 But that is not the point, as nothing run at the time (the machine had
19 enough anyway).
20
21 Have a nice day
22
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24 Wait few minutes before opening this email. The temperature difference
25 could lead to vapour condensation.
26
27 Michal "vorner" Vaner