Dave Miner wrote: > Darren Reed wrote: >> To be of interest to the appliances community, I'd like to see the >> following additions made: >> > > ... > >> Install image: >> - Provide an install image "tuned" to run from flash memory >> > > Could you elaborate on what you mean by "install image" and "tuned"?
Hmm, it may be that in an appliance environment it makes no sense to do an "install" when the "install" is done by the build that creates an image that is used with dd, or cdrw, to write it direct to bootable media. By "tuned", I mean that it might be best of the installed platform only has pcfs (FAT-32) by default and that there is no UFS or ZFS, etc. Similarly the default use (or not) of cron jobs and other things should be reviewed to minimise "disk" (flash) access for both reading and writing. syslog files might (for example) be kept on a ramdisk filesystem or maybe /var/log is a swapfs filesystem. i.e. when running from flash, you want to read and write to it as little as possible. Darren
