From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PDNWS-0000OK-1B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:32:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 609D2E079D; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 20:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9ECE079D for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 20:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so4415464ewy.40 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:31:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=PysMgv/TYpYB5OxRTv+bI+2a9Bl8yv7tRJubMnEsWZE=; b=SusGwpW9iHIK06L3xHjgvL/l6Dx5Ms22BpnDLNCb4vcVF0X//9rQXBvnhzLuoS9bhO u6SfB1W+9xx5WbEbAke3kELb2xprLuYtKNHN3YYnOBY8ZknFfCSb3fKD7av0v8Pxyubt lrUjMDqIF8dIax52NN9NO1/Zpi1DY7Kc4cDus= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=iGxeMiUngTz5Z6f2NHln+1ubbw0i6WcJdvovYfO+dzg5DBJDgumjJOFCGLjYyY4uvY KqeNam0QtLujzFK9ZbzzyS9eHgXshsk8eHJCGLK4TMdJN2aA6n0TwGJjFn2gLwhIlQVA JoWBIF7IMBRjFYqPC2kHKyCPWQfAQwO6TVqJM= Received: by 10.14.45.70 with SMTP id o46mr27022eeb.10.1288729912402; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:31:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-42.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v51sm5800272eeh.4.2010.11.02.13.31.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:31:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 22:32:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-ck; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <4CCF519A.6060500@garygolden.me> <54EAE166-A669-451D-95CD-9916D5679766@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <201011021919.05849.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <201011021919.05849.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011022232.26610.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2787e8d4-483d-4d36-a430-f0fecd3ae3d8 X-Archives-Hash: f5b84e0cf1346d4a1e9b7b06c59ff4d1 Apparently, though unproven, at 20:19 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: > On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Stroller wrote: > > On 2/11/2010, at 10:46am, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > ... > > > hard links will only work if /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage are on > > > the same filesystem. Frequently, they are not. > > > > For small values of frequently. > > > > Stroller. > > for every sane system out there. > > /var is a candidate for surprisingly filling up / to 100% so it is a smart > and sane choice to put it on its own partition where damage will be > reduced to some log files or an aborted emerge. You're both right, but for different reasons. It'd done less often on a laptop or personal machine than on a server for instance. And on embedded stuff, almost never. Example: Any junior of mine who doesn't make /var separate is liable to be served his own testicles for dinner, and they know it. But my laptop is one big filesystem. One case definitely needs it, the other one doesn't really. You're probably looking at the same question from entirely different needs and viewpoints. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com