Duncan wrote: > All that dealt with, there's only one possibly valid reason I'm aware of, > for those already splitting out the portage tree onto its own partition, > why they might /not/ wish to use reiserfs. Those that only have ext2/3 > configured in their kernel may not wish to bother configuring reiserfs for > just the portage tree.
I'd better tell you my reason then - I've been using Partition Magic to manipulate my partitions for several years now, and it doesn't do Reiser. > Peter Humphrey posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, > on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:27:49 +0000: > >> Don't combine systems' /var/log directories - you will end up with >> deeply troubled emerge.log and PORT_LOGDIR records. > > "Deeply troubled" is an apt description. <g> In any case, combining > /var/log dirs makes no sense, Agreed. >> I'm not yet sure of the wisdom of combining /var/tmp from different >> systems: I haven't yet sorted out the consequences for the portage work >> directories. Watch this space. > > In any case, there's no damage to portage by combining those dirs, or > removing the contents at boot, either. If you have something set up > locally that saves data across reboots to either /var/tmp or /tmp, > consider changing it, as that's not what those dirs are for, and expecting > them to be safe for that could get broken at some point. That's more-or-less what I thought - thanks. -- Rgds Peter. -- [email protected] mailing list
