From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78B33138010 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 21:12:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5DBAB21C00A; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 21:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gh0-f181.google.com (mail-gh0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EFF4E096D for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 21:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghz3 with SMTP id 3so440339ghz.40 for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:09:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=cj8ggO0li9XOBuc0N++6rqrJkuWTADZ3Wl60viBk6c0=; b=j4/BZiQWZVM3y+F3evWIitMMqbvcvcfzZOWsQR53ijbmtRg5OhGzaK4haNjQI7UQxz wRZzUSw/YqNiNsqpWsaieXXmRXNwao18641172o3hPalEOSwe1Q/0FIwvWgDyVQ3Hal3 FgUp+ObqBtsV+M39oqkCIYUiaZvLxNlejxJJqEwp2Kdbym/shnFmUMWb3WVMeZIF+m/1 DTsAXGIxQ/7vnokhswlWv4z7IyzWBoa4p1h8lvPXmaEXeSHm+YZF7RnXG7xFIsK07Aj2 y7FLdgXti9jc8CcM2SjcqJmt96WhNPxCJemb01KozId7vJ9AOXuAdxew1QugzoEsA2zw OKkQ== Received: by 10.236.76.132 with SMTP id b4mr3120145yhe.106.1346965757573; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:09:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-93-201.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.93.201]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i3sm2851308anl.0.2012.09.06.14.09.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <504910F8.5010205@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:09:12 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120902 Firefox/15.0 SeaMonkey/2.12 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: aligning SSD partitions References: <504791EB.2030103@gmail.com> <20120906065755.GA2442@nicolas-desktop> <504869AB.20908@gmail.com> <20120906104744.7f0972a7@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <504876B5.7050001@gmail.com> <20120906112003.7b1235bd@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <50487E9A.3060200@gmail.com> <20120906111136.GC2442@nicolas-desktop> <5048898C.7070301@gmail.com> <20120906134646.GH2442@nicolas-desktop> <5048B120.2030905@gmail.com> <5048D2D7.1070000@gmail.com> <20120906212107.6d7dcc64@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120906212107.6d7dcc64@hactar.digimed.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 887b21af-b198-4c3d-bb27-3f61ad75a6c7 X-Archives-Hash: cadcc3841b2b8324486b866af7d8108c Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:44:07 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I kind of get what they are saying but at the same time using tmpfs >> doesn't matter. Once the tarball is read off the drive, it doesn't >> matter whether portage is run on a tmpfs or not. > Reading the tarball has nothing to do with this, we are discussing > filesystems for PORTAGE_TMPDIR, not DISTDIR. It's where the source is > unpacked, the object files compiled to, the executables linked to and the > install image created that is relevant to TMPDIR. > > Well, on my system, when I run emerge, it has to go read the tarball from the drive before it can unpack and do all the rest that needs to be done. I was timing from the time I hit return on the emerge command till it was done. Actually, I used time to time it for me. ;-) As I said, I ran these tests on what a typical user would be using. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!