[Tilesathome] Use of ramdisk for temporary directories?

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

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Matthias Julius schrieb:
> Matthew Newton <matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> Just to be careful that the process always clears up old files, even for
>> any error cases. Running tmpreaper on the shm directory is a suitable
>> hack if necessary.
> 
> I doubt the benefits would be huge.  If the zip files are unpacked in
> the same file system where the tiles have to go moving them should be
> really cheap as this should only be changing directory entries and not
> really move any data.

Sooner rather than later we will have to split up data between the
disks, so there will be expensive moves mixed in with the normal processing.
I'm not sure how it's handled now, but I'm led to believe we already are
beyond one disk in size.

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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E

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