From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:15:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPrc81r+UhhPupWyaUaTj+PnriFZUeZuR-oJ958s7zCe3CnSw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2qdGUzXpPiy=63BG9_bfshU4zf-c76z5Kdv9yzyS2zECG-ZA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:05 AM, 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?
You are; but in an incredible complicated and convulted way.
If I'm understanding you, you want:
fstab:
/dev/XX /mnt/p1 ...
/dev/YY /mnt/p2 ...
and then
/usr/portage -> /mnt/p1
/usr/src -> /mnt/p2
(or using bindmounting, whatever).
This makes no sense at all (at least not to me), when you can simply:
fstab:
/dev/XX /usr/portage ...
/dev/YY /usr/src ...
and get the same split filesystem, but without all the complication
you are proposing.
Unless there is something I don't understand, in which case I'm not
following your reasoning.
Regards.
--
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-13 8:17 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 [this message]
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
2012-03-13 18:06 ` Walter Dnes
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