From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remove nodes in a directory
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:03:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040113020324.GA5750@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040109191121.48518.qmail@web14905.mail.yahoo.com>
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:53:12PM -0800, Jon Smirl wrote:
> --- Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 10:49:18AM -0800, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > It it possible to add a better error message for the out of disk space case?
> > >
> > > Doesn't the 100Kb database file defeat the whole point of making udev small
> > > using klibc?
> >
> > No. 100Kb database being stored on disk is pretty tiny in the long
> > run...
>
> What about embedded systems where the 100Kb is going in ram or flash?
I don't know. Do you have one? Is that excessive? Do the benefits of
udev outweigh the extra disk space for the database for you?
> Does the db engine return an out of disk space error? I wasn't able to see any
> kind of error until I did a debug build and even debug the message was simply
> "database error".
Hm, don't know, I'll look into that.
> Tinydb is a disk based database. Is anyone familar with an in-memory style
> database that might be smaller?
Once we have udevd in place, tinydb can be switched over to run
in-memory. It's just a simple 1 argument change in udev to do this :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-09 19:11 remove nodes in a directory Jon Smirl
2004-01-09 20:10 ` Kay Sievers
2004-01-09 20:12 ` Greg KH
2004-01-09 20:28 ` Jon Smirl
2004-01-09 20:35 ` Kay Sievers
2004-01-09 20:41 ` Jon Smirl
2004-01-09 20:50 ` Kay Sievers
2004-01-09 21:20 ` Jon Smirl
2004-01-09 23:09 ` Greg KH
2004-01-09 23:47 ` Kay Sievers
2004-01-10 3:07 ` Jon Smirl
2004-01-10 18:49 ` Jon Smirl
2004-01-13 0:59 ` Greg KH
2004-01-13 1:53 ` Jon Smirl
2004-01-13 2:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
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