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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2018 11:24:46 -0700
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        george+freebsd@m5p.com
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A potential new porter seeking some clarifications
Message-ID:  <CAP7rwchjtk-AfXoVON5v4GHBSb=LBtBhAjT=ph4JEicEdGy1cA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:00 AM George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/13/18 10:06 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > [...] So long as you have sufficient disk space
> > and you aren't trying to rebuild the entire ports tree, it can work well
> > on a very ordinary desktop machine. [...]
>
> Still getting used to the idea that a machine with >16GB would today
> be considered a "very ordinary desktop machine."  -- Decrepit old George

Do yourself a favour though and use ZFS. Poudriere is fast and elegant
on ZFS. It is unavoidably painfully slow on UFS/FFS.

# Adam


-- 
Adam Weinberger
adamw@adamw.org
https://www.adamw.org



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