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If you want to compile in a ramdisk, couldn't you simply mount a tmpfs |
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at /var/tmp/portage? |
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Something like this (tmpfs max size 512MB): |
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mount -t tmpfs none /var/tmp/portage -o size=512m |
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On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 07:09, Andy Arbon wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I seem to remember that a while back there was talk of modifying Portage |
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> so that it could do compilations in RAM disk rather than using the HD. |
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> I'm curious whether this idea was accepted by the devs and if so, when |
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> it's targeted to be finished? |
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> I have a fair amount of RAM and a slow disk, so I'm quite keen on the idea. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Andy |
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Chris PeBenito |
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<pebenito@××××.org> |
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"Engineering does not require science. Science helps |
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a lot, but people built perfectly good brick walls |
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long before they knew why cement works."-Alan Cox |
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