From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nh6YG-0002Cs-Qb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:24:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10366E09DB; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:23:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from s15216962.onlinehome-server.info (forum.psychotherapie.org [217.160.22.205]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 780EBE09DB for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by s15216962.onlinehome-server.info (8.13.3/8.13.3) with UUCP id o1FJNH4p017600 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:23:17 +0100 Received: from excalibur.local ([192.168.0.45]) by nibiru.metux.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id o1FJJLqo031287 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:19:22 +0100 Message-ID: <4B799E95.2010700@metux.de> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:20:53 +0100 From: Enrico Weigelt Organization: metux IT service User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091124 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? References: <20100208222047.GA6553@muc.de> <20100210141843.6777b7c7@digimed.co.uk> <4B780861.1080505@metux.de> <201002151057.34557.joost@antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <201002151057.34557.joost@antarean.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2335f1e4-00a7-4223-99d4-dcd1bad29daf X-Archives-Hash: de1861872051f097bdcd14f7e8689488 J. Roeleveld wrote: >> And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, >> why not just using the filesystem ? > > Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks) you > don't want every single status update to be written to the filesystem. > And with minimal memory, I don't want to have a ram-disk gobbling up the > memory I have. Why not simply using tmpfs ? Or an specific synthetic filesystem ? 9P makes this really easy, and network agnostic. cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: info@metux.de skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------