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Chris, |
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I think you'll still want to use the desktop profile, but configure |
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your /tmp and /var/log to be mounted on a shared file system. What |
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I've done in my embedded system is modify the inittab file to mount |
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tmp on a shmfs file system, and the create directories called /tmp/var/ |
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log and /tmp/var/lock. The root file system (on disk), has symbolic |
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links in place at /var/log and /var/lock that point to /tmp/var/log |
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and /tmp/var/lock, respectively. This works fine, because by the time |
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any process is ready to write to /var/log, the inittab has already |
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mounted the shared file system and made the target directories of the |
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symbolic links. |
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I think this would work for you, but its a bit of manual configuration |
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you'll have to work through. |
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I don't know how you'd handle things like Firefox's cache, I don't |
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know any way to reduce its writes or redirect them out of your profile. |
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On Apr 17, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Christopher Friedt wrote: |
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> Does anyone know if there is a portage profile for reduced disk |
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> writes? I just got an EEE pc and I'm experimenting on a USB stick |
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> before I write to the SDD. I'm sort of guessing that such a profile |
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> would basically just slightly alter the default configuration files |
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> of certain apps to either turn off logging or to mount temporary |
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> directories as tmpfs. |
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> Does such a profile sound closer to embedded, or would it be a |
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> desktop profile without the logger, etc, etc. |
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> It seems the line between embedded and default is growing thinner |
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> every day! |
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> I guess I'm looking for something that's more or less a Desktop |
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> profile, but something that would be more suitable for flash-based |
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> devices, like the OpenMoko/Neo, EEE Pc, or a Maemo. |
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> Nedd, I've been using qmerge with my arm packages by the way, and |
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> it's fantastic. I'm really looking forward to using it more. At some |
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> point I'm hoping to use, augment or write a graphical app for |
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> installing packages locally and also remotely via ssh or some web |
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> interface. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Chris |
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