PORTDIR="/mnt/mfs/portage" /mnt/mfs is a moosefs fuse mount
shared full tree including distfiles, and separate package files for different hardware groups BillK On 27/2/20 9:56 am, Michael Jones wrote: > When you say you have a remote portage. What do you mean? > > The actual portage tree, with all the ebuilds? Or something else? > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 18:08 William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au > <mailto:bi...@iinet.net.au>> wrote: > > Hi, > > due to space considerations on my laptop I have moved portage > onto a > network share (moosfs, mfsmounted) - slower but works fine. However, > being a laptop trying to update/install when out and about is both > very > slow and network intensive through a vpn - again, it works but is even > slower to the point of not always being practical > > Is there a way to localise/speedup portage scanning parts of the > update/install process? > > 1. put it on a squashfs share to save space (the laptop is running > btrfs > with compression so I don't think that will get me much) > > 2. put portage on an sd card and mount it when necessary > > The laptop is a Surface Pro4 so expanding the storage is not > practical - > though I could shrink the windows partition a little more. > > BillK > > > >
