On 30 Apr 2017, Wols Lists verbalised: > On 30/04/17 17:10, Nix wrote: >> This is a one-off with tooling to manage it: from my perspective, I just >> kick off the autobuilders etc and they'll automatically use transient >> space for objdirs. (And obviously this is all scripted so it is no >> harder than making or removing directories would be: typing 'mktransient >> foo' to automatically create a dir in transient space and set up a bind >> mount to it -- persisted across boots -- in the directory' foo' is >> literally a few letters more than typing 'mkdir foo'.) > > This sounds like me with tmpfs. Okay, mine don't persist across reboots, > but if it's in your build scripts, can't they create a tmpfs and do the > builds in that? Even though I have 128GiB RAM, I don't want a tmpfs for everything (though I use it for a lot, oh yes). Some of the transient stuff is things like QEMU CoW disk images that I don't want to lose on every reboot (though rebuilding them is not too annoying, it is not totally ignorable either); other stuff is things like vapoursynth intermediates which can easily exceed 500GiB, which are only ever read once but nonetheless just won't fit. -- NULL && (void) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
