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  • From: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergeyli AT pisem.net>
  • To: Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ <cerise AT littlegreenmen.armory.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices
  • Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:55:23 +0400 (MSD)

Whatever you do, don't take tempfs from me. It's so
good I'm telling all Windows people about it. I find it
very elegant to use tempfs for every purpose it serves
in sorcery.

Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ <cerise AT littlegreenmen.armory.com>:

> <CONTROVERSIAL-STATEMENT>
> The requirement of large amounts of memory in order
to support the
> mounting of tmpfs's sucks.
>
> I believe it can be done equally as fast, if not
faster, employing
> chroot and a temporary directory.
>
> Large amounts of memory usually isn't a concern of
many programmers
> today. Mostly because machines have larger amounts
of memory at their
> disposal. However, in this case, it's important to
remember what linux
> was all about. A fast, 32-bit operating system on a
non-32-bit chip.
>
> While you *can* run sorcery on a machine with a
smaller amount of RAM,
> it's silly to do so. It usually implies the
requirement of a rather
> large swap partition.
>
> Is there any work being done to this effect?
> </CONTROVERSIAL-STATEMENT>
>
> -Phil/CERisE
>
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Sergey Lipnevich, MCSE, SCPJ,
Sr. Software Engineer,
New Age Network New York, Inc.,
+1-848-459-LIPN.




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