Re: Package building reduces the lifetime of the SSD drives

First, I'm going to do manually;

PHASE 1: Inital Ram Disk

1.- Create Ram Disk & symlink to workdir
$ diskutil erasevolume HFS+ 'RAM Disk' `hdiutil attach -nomount
ram://12000000`
$ ln -s /Volumes/RAM\ Disk /path_to_git_folder/workdir

2.- Build

3.- Backup Ramdisk => dmg file
$ mount
. . .
/dev/{device number} on /Volumes/RAM Disk (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid,
noowners, mounted by tb)
$ sudo hdiutil create /path_to_dmg_file/RAM\ Disk.dmg -srcdevice
/dev/{device number}

4.- Delete Ram Disk:
$ umount -f /Volumes/RAM\ Disk
$ hdiutl detach /Volumes/RAM\ Disk

PHASE 2

5.- Do [1]

6.- Restore dmg file => RAM\ Disk Volume
$ sudo asr restore -source /path_to_dmg_file/RAM\ Disk.dmg --target
/Volumes/RAM\ Disk -noprompt -noverify -erase

7.- Repeat [2]

8.- Do [3]

2015-02-23 22:55 GMT+01:00 Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Robert Antoni Buj i Gelonch
> <robert.buj@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does we still use [1] for OS X tinderboxes?
>
> nope.. not for 3 years or so...
>
> but its replacement 'tb' is quite flexible and I have used the
> possibilities to customize the different 'phases' to indeed use a
> ramdisk (or do pretty much anything you fancy really)
>
> I also use a massive ramdisk (23GB)  to build release version for the
> 32 bits release... not for fear of harming my ssd, but because
> localization build where horrendously slow without it (14 hours build
> => 2 hours build), due to HFS sucking very hard.
>
> Norbert



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