On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:02:07PM +0200, Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher wrote:
> --snip/snip
[snip/snip the Cc: list too..]
> > What parts of the filesystem needs to be accessed very often? I think, that placing var on a ramdisk, that is mirrored on the hd and is synced every 30 minutes, would be a good solution.
> > I think, that we should add a sysrq key to save the ramdisk to the disk. Is there a similar project, that loads an image into a ramdisk at mount, and writes it back at unmount?
>
> a nice thing for that would be to have unionfs (al viro seems to work
> on that?), and mount a ramdisk ontop of your var directory (or shichever
> directory is a hotspot. - or mount it over your whole harddrive, doing
> COW on the ramdisk. and once the disk reaches a critical high-water-mark
> sync the whole set to the underlaying "real" filesystem.
>
> any comments?
Things like logfile appending...
(Do I need to say more ?)
I myself mount laptop filesystem with noatime option.
Also killing cron/at helps somewhat.
> tm
/Matti Aarnio
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