Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:44:07 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I kind of get what they are saying but at the same time using tmpfs >> doesn't matter. Once the tarball is read off the drive, it doesn't >> matter whether portage is run on a tmpfs or not. > Reading the tarball has nothing to do with this, we are discussing > filesystems for PORTAGE_TMPDIR, not DISTDIR. It's where the source is > unpacked, the object files compiled to, the executables linked to and the > install image created that is relevant to TMPDIR. > >
Well, on my system, when I run emerge, it has to go read the tarball from the drive before it can unpack and do all the rest that needs to be done. I was timing from the time I hit return on the emerge command till it was done. Actually, I used time to time it for me. ;-) As I said, I ran these tests on what a typical user would be using. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
