Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:46:33 +0100 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Wesley Shields <wxs@csh.rit.edu> Cc: Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha@gmail.com>, Brandon Flowers <flowersster@gmail.com>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ??? Message-ID: <863bjjw512.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20060119175224.GA71633@csh.rit.edu> (Wesley Shields's message of "Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:52:24 -0500") References: <79e2026f0601142345x1a9269bdl3153d1bb110be08d@mail.gmail.com> <86ek34d35f.fsf@xps.des.no> <17359.49899.183831.844670@bhuda.mired.org> <86k6cww445.fsf@xps.des.no> <20060119175224.GA71633@csh.rit.edu>
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Wesley Shields <wxs@csh.rit.edu> writes: > I think he is trying to get at a scenario where WRKDIR is on a seperate > disk from the one /usr/ports is on. There is no performance advantage in doing that. I can only see two possible reasons for pointing WRKDIRPREFIX to another disk: - insufficient space on /usr (but then again, you could just move the ports tree to that other disk and mount it on /usr/ports) - /usr/ports on NFS (I do that myself to facilitate testing changes on different platforms) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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