On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, JohnS wrote: > temp fs scares me unless I have a machine capable of RAM RAID 1 + Multi > ECC and I have only one atm. It would be a much better way, I can't > argue that point. You are missing the point that building a distribution, or even just a few packages is going to (and had better) a binary idempotent result. If a machine goes down, wipe the failed partial build and do it again You just don't need multiply redundant backups and six nines hardware, unless you need to heat your office -- Russ herrold