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On Tuesday 07 November 2006 11:56, Roy Marples wrote: |
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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 $svcdir to disk whilst the system is active |
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> (handles locking, timeouts, nice messages, etc) |
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Attached is the patch that does this and shows exactly what's involved here. |
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As you can see, the code that currently handles the locking, saving back to |
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disk, and stuff is very hairy. So this would be a good argument for the |
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$svcdir always on a ramdisk option. |
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Thanks |
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Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o> |
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Gentoo/Linux/FreeBSD Developer (baselayout, networking) |
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