On Monday 17 January 2011 12:38:56 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:40:15 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > If it's diskless, where are /tmp and /var/tmp mounted? If they use > > > tmpfs the "memory" usage is understandable. If they use NFS the > > > emerges must be unbearably slow. > > > > For normal usage, they are in tmpfs along with portage but I mount them > > over nfs for larger packages as memory is too constrained (just comment > > out the lines in fstab) - most packages take much less than a hundred mb > > or so for the storage unless its glibc or the like. After a reboot they > > are using no space (of course) and it just takes a sync to replace > > portage and I use http-replicator on the network so distfiles are not a > > problem. > > So root is on another (more powerful?) machine and mounted over NFS? Why > not chroot into the root on the host machine and run the emerge there?
Is there a howto for this somewhere please? -- Regards, Mick
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