From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 26 14:27:11 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE8CB106564A for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 14:27:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from henrixd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com (mail-wi0-f172.google.com [209.85.212.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 746D18FC15 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 14:27:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhj8 with SMTP id hj8so310928wib.13 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 07:27:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=acw9BruGMoF8hhkMEago2iQOtlbVDMZ5mBINUvEkIG8=; b=tckZsMCrumqfldxksJ2amV99mIVe0NX8COcf0u4QZIdGFwqb6SE8LMJ/wIcjPnChXT Paoqv5tH2vqRwBh5ZOsI26NeJgJ8r6LNUrRTeE2wLvLpDxKQof4zjF3Zl/eVxAhPGNBW goenWrbbECadHTwFvYpvc6m+ojD+cuFVcVp+bC0GscTwJyOb6+oLKVPhv9SbMVqJtp2Z TT+nM1XM2Oe9vk2JLGoVQundH9gXCxXga/9GPCCjE1v5e6LlAamLit3MoDkkN3avSHxC CHYnmseeDDVSf0MaaxymBNSXUsrTWKLCKrCYZOfUOmpC9jzZELJ/WTJYyZeYzgF0v+wA M54Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.104.231 with SMTP id gh7mr3872094wib.10.1338042430361; Sat, 26 May 2012 07:27:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.57.85 with HTTP; Sat, 26 May 2012 07:27:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 17:27:10 +0300 Message-ID: From: Henri Reinikainen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl Subject: Re: ports tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 14:27:12 -0000 On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Wojciech Puchar < wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > Would it be stupid idea to have publicly available, mountable (nfs) >> partition, with full port tree(s)? I think it would be good for >> systems with low storage space. I know hd space is cheap, but I run >> over and over to this problem. >> > > read only or read write? > public read write isn't smart. > I was thinking unionfs kind of temporary layer which keeps physical content separated. Only write changes to memory file system or so.. session end will throw everything into bits heaven (/dev/null). :) > > I don't know how easily it could be done, but some kind of session >> based temporary write permissions would be good too. To be able to >> make && make install directly from mounted partition. >> > > man mount_unionfs > > This was good to know. > > > I don't think very many people would need to have local personal copy >> of ports tree then. >> >> So, is this just stupid? >> > > no. > Is there such environment variables that can be pointed to writeable partition? That sources download and compiles on different partition. Then there is no bandwidth problem since only Makefile kind of files get readed from the server. Well, maybe this idea wont fly. I'm going to buy new hd anyways. :) Thanks anyways!