Lately with all this kernel work I have taken full advantage of the wonderful ramdisk. Since the kernels are compressed and that takes a bunch of disk I/O’s it’s great to shave off minutes in uncompressing by using a ramdisk.

Here is a simple way to setup a ramdisk:

sudo mkdir /mnt/ramdisk
sudo mount -t tmpfs none /mnt/ramdisk

The possibilities are endless, and it helps a ton when you need a bunch of disk I/O, and have the memory to spare.