Hi,
I know that more and more people (esp developers?) are using SSDs and that for
them fragmentation starts hitting only when it's the free space that's really
severely fragmented. I have no experience in that area, and do not currently
have the budget to obtain that experience.
Either way, it seems to me that it might be an interesting idea to make it
possible (easier) to put the build directory on a separate volume (interesting
for anyone building a lot from source). This removes a big source of free space
fragmentation (on disks where fragmentation is an issue), but in general helps
keep ${prefix} cleaner. It can also help keeping log files more compact and
thus more readable if a shorter base path is chosen.
Is this an idea that would stand a chance being considered for "base", IOW,
should I file a wishlist ticket on trac?
In fact I have an untested hunch that at least for my own purposes it could be
useful to have separate trees (and thus potentially separate volumes) for
source.dir and build.dir/destroot.dir, where possible ... but I also have a
hunch that would be more anyone could ask for :)
Cheers,
René
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