Portage tmp dir on a SAMBA share?

[hermansen]

I have installed Gentoo on a laptop with 3,6 GB of disk space. In order to do faster compiling, I have setup Distcc, which works just fine. To gain more space, I moved the /portage/distfiles to a SAMBA share, which works whithout any problems.

Now I would like to place my portage temp dir (in my case /var/tmp/portage) on network drive on a SAMBA share. I read in the instructions for Distcc that PORTAGE_TMPDIR should be removed from the make.conf file, but if I do this, my portage temp dir is automatically placed locally in /var/tmp/portage (although I place .distcc on the network drive). What happens, when I define PORTAGE_TMPDIR to be a network drive on a SAMBA share is the following:


!!! File system problem. (ReadOnly? Out of space?)
!!! Perhaps: rm-Rf /mnt/hermansen2/portage
!!! [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/mnt/hermansen2/portage


I have put in the following in smb.conf at my share:

writeable=yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777

So I would think, that the permissions should be right? (I gave the root user a smbpassword, so I log on as root.)[/i]

[pjp]

Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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[marschw]

I have the same problems, and I've tried both a samba share and an nfs share. Interestingly, I was able to get further with an shfs PORTAGE_TMPDIR, but it still failed due to permission-related things.

-=Marcus