From: Martin Fick Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:08:45 GMT Subject: Re: Git, Builds, and Filesystem Type Message-ID: <14de0389-6497-4e74-baa5-129b0c1560a3@email.android.com> In-Reply-To: >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, -Martin Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center,Inc. which is a member of Code Aurora Forum