On Apr 20, 2013, at 11:55, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Poking around the /usr/src/Makefile.inc1 I see that there's a variable
> called "WORLDTMP" that seems to set the location for temporary files
> during the world build. My question is now:
> 
> Is it safe to put WORLDTMP on a ram disk, for example tmpfs(5)?
> 
> Looking at the build process it seems to me that the temporary files
> are no longer needed after make buildworld has finished?


The problem is that you need those temporary files for installworld, and
you must reboot with your new kernel before running that...

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