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Re: Multiple local distfile directories?



    Date:        Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:43:29 -0800
    From:        Michael Huff <mphuff%gmail.com@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <8c37416f-d45d-ec1b-bb93-0574ad85b9a6%gmail.com@localhost>

  | I think if worse comes to worse I can always put all the distfiles in 
  | one folder on a vm and use dfdisk to grab them over the network.

You might want to consider either mount_union or mount -o union
(2 quite different things) - put the directory you want new distfiles
loaded into on top of the set, and the others under it.

union (one way or the other) mounts are good for all kinds of creative
filesystem manipulations.

kre




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