From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19039 invoked by uid 1002); 2 Jan 2003 14:00:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 30501 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2003 14:00:14 -0000 Message-ID: <3E1444E0.5000500@dev.celestialwizard.org> Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 23:55:44 +1000 From: Celestial Wizard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030102135640.6de07a50.smiler@lanil.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20030102135640.6de07a50.smiler@lanil.mine.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A few ideas... X-Archives-Salt: b1497f0b-04d9-4cfd-beb0-1874b779f94e X-Archives-Hash: 8929095aa373011b8e40a1ef72ab615d Christian Axelsson wrote: > I was sitting and thinking of simplifying the process of having / (and maybe > other partitions) running for a RAM-disk that can be stored on NFS, cdrom, and > maybe even a harddrive (with encrypted fs). I'm not sure I see why you would want to do this? One of the things I have thought might be useful with regard to RAM disks is how Sorceror Linux uses them. Instead of doing compiles on disk, why not make it on a tmpfs RAM disk? For those with enough memory, it is extremely fast (no real I/O), and for those that don't it can use swap. And there is no reason why this can't be an option for those that wish it. Put an option in the make.profile ? -- Celestial Wizard RedHat Certified Engineer President - South East Brisbane Linux Users Group http://www.seblug.org/ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list