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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:36:52
Message-Id: 54AD98DA.9020701@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs by Neil Bothwick
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4 Am 07.01.2015 um 21:17 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
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6 > That's not what I meant, but I see your point about using --reflink
7 > if making copies. My thought was to forget the whole tmpfs and
8 > copying think, set KEEP WORK in FEATURES and use XFS for
9 > PORTAGE_TMPDIR. That way most of the work is taking place in the
10 > cache without the frequent disk writes of other filesystems. I
11 > would expect XFS to be faster for this job, but have no data to
12 > support that assumption.
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14 Maybe I am not fully up to date with this thread.
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16 You mean, PORTAGE_TMPDIR on xfs (on disk ... hdd or ssd) might be
17 faster than on tmpfs?
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19 Interesting ...
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21 I run that on tmpfs for a while now, with 8GB of RAM dedicated ... I
22 never benchmarked, but always was confident that this was the fastest
23 possible setup.
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25 Or is that statement pointed at the specific case of building and
26 keeping binary packages at the end of emerging (which I assume) ?
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28 Stefan
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>