Bug 82895

Summary:	Option for /var/tmp/portage ramdisk
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Daniel <lpmusix>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Daniel 2005-02-21 17:52:14 UTC

I think it could be useful for there to be an feature that can be set within the FEATURES flag to make the /var/tmp/portage dir a ramdisk.  When an emerge starts it could check for this flag, if there, mount /var/tmp/portage as a ramdisk/tmpfs and then contiune with the install.  
I am compiling openmotif right now in a ramdisk and it seems to be going a lot faster than usual.  I'll post a comparative time after it's finished compiling.  I think this could be a useful feature for those with a good chunk of ram.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-21 17:54:16 UTC

mount -t tmpfs -o size=1G none /var/tmp/portage

You could even add it to /etc/fstab...

Comment 2 Daniel 2005-02-21 18:00:12 UTC

yes, that is true.  Either way works :)