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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergeyli AT pisem.net>
  • Cc: Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ <cerise AT littlegreenmen.armory.com>, "\"\\\"Julian v. Bock\\\"\"" <julian AT openit.de>, Source Mage Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] tmpfs
  • Date: 25 Jul 2002 12:02:36 -0400

hear hear!

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 09:51, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> I still think tempfs is a very elegant solution to many
> problems (disk clean-up, /tmp using my otherwise unused
> most of the time swap partition, performance still
> there), but that's not the point. Why are we discussing
> what to change when there's a whole slew of sorcery
> functions to implement to be feature-complete for 1.0?
>
> --Sergey.
>
> Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ <cerise AT littlegreenmen.armory.com>:
>
> > Julian v. Bock said:
> >
> > > I like it because my fs doesn't get filled with the
> remains of failed
> > > compiles. After a reboot everything is gone, and if
> I want to
> > > clean up manually all I have to do is the following:
> > >
> > > cd /usr/src
> > > umount *
> > > rmdir *
> > >
> > > This leaves the kernel dir / link intact.
> >
> > I can think of a couple of work arounds. You
> could chroot into a
> > directory and install things to the appropriate
> places. You could then
> > relink things accordingly.
> > You could create a new directory as you would with
> tempfs and
> > do all sorcery related work within it. You could
> then delete leftovers
> > accordingly.
> > You could have a temporary file mounted as a
> loopback and do all
> > work in there.
> > The important part here is that Sorcery as a good
> packaging system
> > should clean up after itself. Tempfs is a simple
> idea thrown at a
> > problem. I believe that the benchmarks have bourne
> out that using the
> > native filesystem may be a better idea.
> > I don't believe that having Sorcery clean up after
> itself and
> > having Sorcery use the native filesystem are mutually
> exclusive.
> >
> > -Phil/CERisE
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