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OK, so some people have raised concerns about writing in /lib is ugly and |
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against LFS. Others have raised concerns about loosing their ramdisk support. |
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So - how do people feel about always keeping it mounted as a ramdisk (default |
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tmpfs, then ramfs then ramdisk) in /lib/rcscripts/init.d? That means we're |
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not writing to /lib directly and not using /var which makes me happy. |
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ramdisk users and BSD users will loose the size of memory (default 1 meg) |
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allocated, but this is definable. We an also preserve the deptrees between |
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reboots if /lib/rcscripts is writeable so we can write it back when we |
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shutdown. |
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A net benefit of this is that we would could remove around 60 lines of code |
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which handle the moving of $svcdir to disk whilst the system is active |
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(handles locking, timeouts, nice messages, etc) |
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The only downside is that ramdisk and BSD users do then have the potential to |
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run out of space, but I've yet to see my 1meg svcdir on BSD go over 13% |
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usage. |
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So does this make everyone happy? |
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Thoughts? |
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Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o> |
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Gentoo/Linux/FreeBSD Developer (baselayout, networking) |
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