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I've taken a similar approach with the package db and the emerge cache, |
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which would usually reside in /var/db/pkg and /var/cache/edb. |
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good idea for the log, and lock dirs. |
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I guess /var/run, etc, etc can all go in tmpfs |
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Joshua ChaitinPollak wrote: |
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> Chris, |
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> I think you'll still want to use the desktop profile, but configure your |
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> /tmp and /var/log to be mounted on a shared file system. What I've done |
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> in my embedded system is modify the inittab file to mount tmp on a shmfs |
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> file system, and the create directories called /tmp/var/log and |
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> /tmp/var/lock. The root file system (on disk), has symbolic links in |
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> place at /var/log and /var/lock that point to /tmp/var/log and |
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> /tmp/var/lock, respectively. This works fine, because by the time any |
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> process is ready to write to /var/log, the inittab has already mounted |
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> the shared file system and made the target directories of the symbolic |
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> 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 know |
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> 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 of |
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>> 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 desktop |
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>> 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 it's |
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>> fantastic. I'm really looking forward to using it more. At some point |
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>> I'm hoping to use, augment or write a graphical app for installing |
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>> packages locally and also remotely via ssh or some web interface. |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> Chris |
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