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On 18/02/2020 01:21, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 6:00 PM Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Hm. I'm too chicken to try it because I'm not sure it does what I think |
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>> it does, but does the "--ephemeral" option pretty much do *exactly* what |
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>> Dale was asking about? Can you start your current "/" as a container |
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>> as-is, emerge packages in it and save them as binaries, then install |
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>> those from the outside, then shutdown the container and all is forgotten? |
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> Obvious way to test this would be to just set up a VM. It has the |
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> obvious advantage of always being in-sync with your host config. |
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> I think I might actually try playing around with this. I'm on zfs |
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> though so I'm not sure how it will perform. |
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I just tested it in a throw-away Ubuntu VM running on ext4. It crashed |
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and burned due to disk space. It tried to duplicate the whole "/" with |
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zero error checks. So free space reached 0 but it still didn't abort. I |
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had to abort with ctrl+c. Free space was then 200MB (out of 20GB). I did |
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"du -sh /*" to find where all the GBs went, but it doesn't find it. |
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So... yeah. Not very convincing implementation. Don't try it at home, |
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kids :-P |
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