On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:56 PM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> 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. -- _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
