Richard Melville wrote: > For the last couple of years I've been mounting /tmp as tmpfs and it > does seem to make a speed difference when building packages, > particularly on a slower machine; I've had no problems to date. > > I'd be interested to know what the views are here.
I don't know about building packages but if you want to unleash "git filter-branch" on a reasonably sized repository then you *really* want your temporary directory to be in memory. (The command accepts a custom temporary directory which is convenient if eg. /dev/shm is in memory but /tmp is not.) Also, many audio/multimedia HOWTOs advise you to have /tmp in memory but I haven't used such software in enough anger to see how useful that is. Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
