On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:33:41PM -0400, Andev wrote: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:56 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The trick to remember is that you probably don't want to use the ramdisk > > as the permanent host, so... > > > > 1) Setup your git tree on permanent storage > > 2) Set up your ramdisk > > 3) cd /my/source/tree > > 4) tar -c --exclude=.git -f - . | (cd /mnt/ramdisk && tar -xvf -) > > > > then cd /mnt/ramdisk and start building. Remember if you make changes to > > copy them back to /my/source/tree :) > > > > (The --exclude=.git will avoid copying about 900M onto the ramdisk. Skip that > > if you need the git history on the ramdisk for doing a bisect or similar) > > Thanks Valdis for the instructions. > > So I tried the following to mount a tmpfs > > $ sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=2000m tmpfs ./ramlinux/ > $ tar -c --exclude=.git -f - . | (cd ~/ramlinux && tar -xvf -) > > And it works fine. I am not sure if tmpfs has any advantages over ramdisk. It's the same thing :) _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
