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 03:12:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPrc82EQiAw5Qt1NUE8GfAdZ_KgNcm9No9GNNi60JTLTSPptQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2qdGVAK2GcZs34CGd+dk6Q5QefJnnkjHOjA3dvSVxjH903eQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 15:15, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> The point is: It's not just 2 (two) directories, but several of them,
> and I just can't see myself creating a partition (or an LV) for each
> and everyone of them.
>
> So, here's my thoughts:
>
> There are 2 filesystems that are suitable for different purposes:
> * reiserfs = for space efficiency (w/o notail option) and/or no inode#
> limitation
> * ext4 = for general purpose
>
> The directories I'm going to split:
>
> /usr/share ==> ext4
> /usr/portage ==> reiserfs
> /usr/portage/packages ==> ext4
> /usr/portage/distfiles ==> ext4
> /usr/src ==> reiserfs
> /var/cache/rtorrent (don't ask) ==> reiserfs
> /var/spool/postfix ==> ext4
> /var/lib/postgresql ==> ext4
>
> Now, I create 2 partitions:
>
> /dev/sdc1 (reiserfs) --> /mnt/Persistent1
> /dev/sdd1 (ext4) --> /mnt/Persistent2
>
> Then I create subdirectories:
>
> /mnt/Persistent1/portage
> /mnt/Persistent1/src
> /mnt/Persistent1/rtorrent
>
> /mnt/Persistent2/share
> /mnt/Persistent2/packages
> /mnt/Persistent2/distfiles
> /mnt/Persistent2/postfix
> /mnt/Persistent2/postgresql
>
> Finally, I need to redirect the directories-I-want-to-split to the
> above subdirs under /mnt/Persistent[12]
>
> SO.
>
> mount -o bind ... or ln -s ?
OK, now I understand. I still think is kinda crazy, but to each its own.
I would definitely use symlinks.
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 9:13 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 [this message]
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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