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

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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?

My system maxes out at 16GB ram, so twice ram per disk as swap gives me
32GB swap/disk by 2 disks gives me 64GB of swap for all my transient
stuff. Running gentoo, I need that space to build gcc, LO etc :-)

Cheers,
Wol