https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36546
Anastasius Focht focht@gmx.net changed:
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--- Comment #24 from Anastasius Focht focht@gmx.net --- Hello folks,
I apologize beforehand since it's unrelated to the actual tmpfs problem but since a few people here are claiming this feature to be used in conjunction with rapid testing let me offer another potential solution.
--- snip --- I also use ramfs a lot to test wine since it's much faster to create and operate prefixes. --- snip ---
I admit prefixes backed by physical disks will always have inferior performance but there might be an alternative.
I use btrfs subvolumes for prefixes for more than two years now, along with 'snapper' to ease snapshot management. It allows me to snapshot/restore prefixes to any state in an instant using btrfs builtin features. This is especially useful for incremental testing and/or when intermediate prefix states need to be captured/restored quickly. In addition you get nifty features like builtin "diff" between arbitrary snapshots. You can for example see which files changed in the prefix during install or even which registry changes have been done (since the hives are text files).
Regards