Re: First Git status takes 40+ minutes, when mounting fileystem/diskimage with 50G GIT repo + 900G of builds articles

"Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" [off-list ref] writes:

I suspect warming the filesystem caching is in play.
But so is the fact that walk every tree to find untracked files as well. 

Enable the untracked cache and "update-index --refresh", before
freezing the repository + working tree state in the diskimage?