I have /usr/portage mounten over nfs from server as many other people. Sometimes server is down, this in't problem. I have entry in /etc/fstab. This entry doens't mount auto, while i didn't need to use /usr/portage on startup, and sometimes when server is down, i didn't want that startup wait's ant check, that thear is posibiliti to mount that. Is any posibility to mount /usr/portage or check that is alraidy mounted on startup of portage? I have 6 gentoo box, and one of them server, with /usr/portage exported to all. This save for me a lot network (internet) trafik, and save a lot of disk space. Thanks Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
why dont you make the central more stable instead ? ;)
Central did you mean central server? Sorry, can't. Due power suply and other's misc problems.
alias emerge="mount /usr/portage; emerge " IMO it's the system administrator's responsibility to ensure that all required filesystems are mounted.
what about situation, that is it alraidy mounted? Ok, it's easy to do, but this another one task of tasklist, that must be done, after gentoo install.
a) if it's already mounted the emerge command will still run, the error message from mount can be suppressed with &> /dev/null b) the major problem is that it's perfectly valid to not have /usr/portage mounted, e.g. on my notebook I nfs-mount /usr/portage at home, but not when I'm at university. And adding another FEATURE setting for this is overkill.
