Re: Recovery on new 2TB disk: finish=7248.4min (raid1)

[Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>]

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.

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