From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:58:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313125845.5a236baf@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2qdGUzXpPiy=63BG9_bfshU4zf-c76z5Kdv9yzyS2zECG-ZA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:05:59 +0700
Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2012 2:00 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:04:00 +0700
> > Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> >
> > > I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories
> > > under /usr, e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source actually living
> > > somewhere else, on different partition and different filesystem.
> > > Let's say something mounted on /mnt/Persistent.
> > >
> > > My question: should I use bindmount or symlinks to do that?
> > > What's the drawbacks/benefits for either?
> > >
> > > Rgds,
> >
> > You should do neither as they do not give you split storage, they
> > both give you the same thing in two different places.
> >
> > Create two new filesystems and mount them.
> >
> > I personally use /var/portage as there is no good reason for it to
> > be under /usr where it is just clutter.
> >
> > Code goes in /usr
> > Data goes in /var
> >
> > You have to change PORTDIR in /etc/make.conf for this to work as
> > well as /etc/make.profile. Nothing breaks without it, you just get
> > errors from portage
> >
>
> Eh? But I put portage, src, share, etc. on a different partition
> mounted under /mnt ... doesn't that mean I am using a split
> filesystem?
Do you have separate filesystems for each of those directories, or one
big storage area? I'm struggling to find out what you are trying to
accomplish and what problem that is a solution for.
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-13 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-13 5:04 [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink? Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13 5:11 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13 5:39 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13 5:45 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13 6:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-13 8:05 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13 8:15 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13 8:52 ` Philipp Riegger
2012-03-13 9:00 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13 9:12 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13 10:35 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-03-13 11:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-13 10:58 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2012-03-13 18:06 ` Walter Dnes
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