From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:03:24 +0000 Subject: Re: remove nodes in a directory Message-Id: <20040113020324.GA5750@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040109191121.48518.qmail@web14905.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040109191121.48518.qmail@web14905.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:53:12PM -0800, Jon Smirl wrote: > --- Greg KH 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel