Re: Git, Builds, and Filesystem Type

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MFMartin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>

Date

Feb 10, 2012, 02:08 UTC

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>I found [1]. Is that sort of what you had in mind

yes

>That would be quite
>tricky. I have a group of some 60 projects, each with their own
>"target" directory which would have to be mounted on tmpfs. And the
>"target" directory is created by Maven, not by me. Not to mention that
>I shut down my computer at the end of the day. :-)

Sounds like a laptop?  Hibernate?

>I think I would prefer a somewhat more persistent solution. I
>certainly have enough space for a very big swap partition. So the
>whole of ~/my-project would fit on tmpfs. I'm just not sure about
>making it persistent at the end of the day.

Link your .git dir to a persistent location. 

Benchmark it first so you know how much hassle it may be worth.  If it isn't worth it, xfs or brtfs will likely not be worth it either,