Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 04:49, Duncan wrote: > Getting a bit worried by comments so far. sorry, but this just stinks of lame -mike pgpBicjwkPwiI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-07 Thread Roy Marples
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 12:29, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Roy Marples wrote: > > Actually, before I do that, let me attack this from another angle. > > What do you gain from keeping it mounted as a ramdisk? > > If the answer is performance, well you loose performance at start time as > > you've lo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-07 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Roy Marples wrote: Actually, before I do that, let me attack this from another angle. What do you gain from keeping it mounted as a ramdisk? If the answer is performance, well you loose performance at start time as you've lost the deptree. So why would you want to keep it? read-only nfsroot

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-07 Thread Roy Marples
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 10:50, Roy Marples wrote: > > I'm using that now and hope to keep it. I went with the suggested > > size=2m (tmpfs). df says 184KB used, so that's quite big enough and then > > some, but on Linux the free space isn't actually allocated until it's no > > longer free space

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-07 Thread Roy Marples
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 09:49, Duncan wrote: > Getting a bit worried by comments so far. You ARE planning to keep the > OPTION of keeping a tmpfs (or whatever) mounted svcdir, right (an option > to keep it mounted that way after the boot level, is how I guess it'd > work)? Actually we mount i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Roy Marples
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 03:23, Sven Köhler wrote: > After reading all the concerns and doubt and things, i ask myself: > > why not keep in a tmpfs? > > Well, it can be swapped out too, and it isn't too much data anyway, is it? Only linux has a non specific tmpfs - ie it just uses what it needs