On Tuesday 12 July 2011 20:14, Laurent Bercot wrote: > > BusyBox writes to .ash_history after each and every command, which we don't > > want on e.g. mobile devices with a flash-based storage device. > > Using a buffer helps reducing the amount of erase/write cycles on the > > storage medium > > Wouldn't mobile devices with flash-based storage be better off using an > adapted filesystem layer, such as UBI ? Patching every application to > avoid writing to the filesystem does not sound like the right way to > handle this.
Yes, I think the approach this patch takes is not sustainable. History is a small file. If your flash fs and hardware can't cope even with periodic updates of a small file, then how it copes with other real-world cases? BTW, what about solving it with "ln -s /tmp/.ash_history-$USERNAME ~/.ash_history" ? -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
