On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 21:36:42 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 07.01.2015 um 21:17 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > > > That's not what I meant, but I see your point about using --reflink > > if making copies. My thought was to forget the whole tmpfs and > > copying think, set KEEP WORK in FEATURES and use XFS for > > PORTAGE_TMPDIR. That way most of the work is taking place in the > > cache without the frequent disk writes of other filesystems. I > > would expect XFS to be faster for this job, but have no data to > > support that assumption. > > Maybe I am not fully up to date with this thread. > > You mean, PORTAGE_TMPDIR on xfs (on disk ... hdd or ssd) might be > faster than on tmpfs? > > Interesting ...
No/ I mean TMPDIR on XFS might be faster, and a lot less complex, than TMPDIR on tmpfs and copying everything to hard disk too. -- Neil Bothwick If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their lights off?
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