Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-7
Severity: wishlist
Hi Petter and others.
Recently I wrote on Debian about how to improve waerleveling with SSDs and now
found out
that there's already infrastructure there by RAMRUN/RAMLOCK in rcS :-)
I'd have some questions and ideas for improvements:
1) TMPFS_SIZE serves only as a default for RUN_SIZE and LOCK_SIZE in case those
are not
set, right? Thus it's possible to set their size and leaf all other tmpfs as
is.
I'd suggest then to better reflect this in the rcS(5) manpage by:
- do not mentioning TMPFS_SIZE there at all, but just in /etc/default/tmpfs
- change the order in the text, first RUN_SIZE respectively LOCK_SIZE and
then
TMPFS_SIZE plus adding in brackets or so, that TMPFS_SIZE is just their
default if
unset.
2) /etc/default/tmpfs only contains documentation about SHM_SIZE but not about
the
others (TMPFS_SIZE, RUN_SIZE, LOCK_SIZE, perhaps others I don't know).
Could you add such documentation similar to what we already have with
SHM_SIZE?
If you want me I could try to set up a text for this.
4) OT: Is it safe to use the two (RAMRUN/RAMLOCK)? I mean as you say "Packages
expecting
this are buggy and need to be fixed."... do you know of any packages
breaking this?
5) btw: while /etc/default/tmpfs is listed (dpkg -L) as being part of
initscripts,
/etc/default/rcS is not (although it's content says it belongs to it). Is
there any
good reason for this?
Thanks + best wishes,
Chris.
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