On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 4:32 PM Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 18/02/2020 01:21, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 6:00 PM Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hm. I'm too chicken to try it because I'm not sure it does what I think > >> it does, but does the "--ephemeral" option pretty much do *exactly* what > >> Dale was asking about? Can you start your current "/" as a container > >> as-is, emerge packages in it and save them as binaries, then install > >> those from the outside, then shutdown the container and all is forgotten? > > > > Obvious way to test this would be to just set up a VM. It has the > > obvious advantage of always being in-sync with your host config. > > > > I think I might actually try playing around with this. I'm on zfs > > though so I'm not sure how it will perform. > > I just tested it in a throw-away Ubuntu VM running on ext4. It crashed > and burned due to disk space. It tried to duplicate the whole "/" with > zero error checks. So free space reached 0 but it still didn't abort. I > had to abort with ctrl+c. Free space was then 200MB (out of 20GB). I did > "du -sh /*" to find where all the GBs went, but it doesn't find it. > > So... yeah. Not very convincing implementation. Don't try it at home, > kids :-P >
Ouch!
