This came up in another context (SoaS running in read-only mode [1]) but I was wondering if we need to run logs on any activities on the XO 1 and 1.5 given that 1) the storage is solid state, 2) the writing of logs *could* bog down the I/O queue and 3) are we using the logs for anything at all? If not, then why bother?
Just a thought. cheers, Sameer [1] The idea came from another project called Pebble Linux (http://www.nycwireless.net/supernode/pebble-linux/ Successor to the original Nocat effort), where we had a small footprint (48MB, I think) Debian OS used for routing, etc. and it booted into a RO mode. Nothing was written to the CF card. At boot, the OS created a temp partition in the RAM and mounted /var there. Logs weren't being used for anything, so these were promptly thrown away at every reboot. You could yank the power and not corrupt anything. Would such an approach work on the XOs? Make an improvement? _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
