On Thursday 10 May 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > 3) Better still, > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage#Make_A_Sparse_File_to_ >create_portage_in
I never understood why portage on a sparse file is beneficial. Mine is on a small reiser logival volume mounted with option "tail". It's just big enough to hold portage with 10-15% free space (the tree doesn't expand that much over time). Care to elabortae on the benfits you get doing it your way? -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
