On Mon, 17 May 2010 13:50:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!:
>On Mon, 17 May 2010 12:31:17 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > >> >> Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my >> >> ftp/pub directory. And looking in the rsync man page: >> > >> >Why not set $DISTDIR to the true location of distfiles instead of >> >using bind mounts? >> >> Because binding the directory to /home/ftp/pub makes the distfiles >> available to the rest of one's network via anonymous ftp. I do the >> same thing here, without the "pub" subdirectory, and >> exclude /home/ftp/ from my backups. > >So the distfiles are actually in /usr/portage/distfiles? Correct. >I share my distfiles but I don't use FTP as that means storing copies >of the same file on each computer. Instead, I use NFS. /mnt/portage is >shared across all machines on the network and DISTDIR is set >to /mnt/portage/distfiles in each make.conf. I used to do that, but it meant my NFS server had to be running to perform any software maintenance on any box, so it became a single point of failure. The FTP approach allows each box to be self-reliant. >Sharing /mnt/portage like this means I can also share my overlay across >the network at /mnt/portage/local. My boxes have different stuff in their overlays, and one uses no overlay packages at all. Sharing overlays doesn't make much sense for my set-up. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ====================================================================== dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) ======================================================================
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