sshfs chroot and offloading compiling

general · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 90

so has anyone had any Ideas/experience with off loading the build prosses
one Idea is if you had two comps (one running Gentoo the other running any UNIX) and both had ssh + sshfs installed would be mounting the root of the Gentoo install to some sub dir of the other and chroot to the Gentoo install and emerge the packages
another what about clustering?
anybody tryed anything like this?

JeliJami · Veteran Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 1086 Location: Belgium

you could start with distcc
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general · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 90

so then does anybody use it?
anybody come up with some other method?

Veldrin · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:53 pm Post subject:

Not quite sure to what you are referring.

I do use distcc, works most of the times, if there was an error, it was often scheduling related (i.e compiler tried to access data from unfinished compile job -- too high MAKEOPTS settings.)
I used it on 2 Northwood and 1 Banias CPU (pentium4 and pentium-m) with the same base system i.e stable x86 gentoo.

Hope it helps.

cheers
V.

adsmith · Veteran Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 1386 Location: NC, USA

lots of people use distcc. it works great.

If you are familiar with NFS or SSHFS and chroot, it is also easy to "cd" to the slower machine, chroot, and build using the faster machines CPU.

distcc is cleaner and better behaved in most cases.