From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U2piC-0007ey-L9 for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:05:54 +0100 Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 05 Feb 2013 12:50:01 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,609,1355126400"; d="scan'208";a="283218264" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.12.90]) ([10.255.12.90]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 05 Feb 2013 12:50:01 -0800 Message-ID: <51117079.10005@linux.intel.com> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:50:01 -0800 From: Saul Wold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laurentiu Palcu References: In-Reply-To: Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Remove /var/cache from volatiles directory X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:05:55 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/04/2013 01:26 AM, Laurentiu Palcu wrote: > Hi, > > Re-generating applications' cache every time the system is rebooted is not a > very efficient process for an embedded device. Usually, the cache directory is > used by applications to store data resulting from time consmuming I/O or > calculation. So, this patchset will take out /var/cache from tmpfs. > I did a basic test with this change along with the "read-only-rootfs" IMAGE_FEATURE and things are looking pretty good. The only thing I noticed is that we leave some /etc/*- files around, I know it's not this patch. Acked-by: Saul Wold Thanks Sau! > Thanks, > Laurentiu > > The following changes since commit 75f470cd18d693a9a96d9849291c2c8de4dcbeb8: > > qt4: Add space for _appends (2013-02-01 22:49:47 +0000) > > are available in the git repository at: > > git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib lpalcu/remove_cache_from_volatiles > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=lpalcu/remove_cache_from_volatiles > > Laurentiu Palcu (5): > base-files: remove /var/cache from volatiles > fs-perms: remove /var/cache from volatiles > initscripts: remove /var/cache from volatiles > systemd: remove /var/cache from volatiles > rpm: remove /var/volatiles/cache/rpm from the FILEs list > > meta/files/fs-perms.txt | 1 - > meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb | 4 ++-- > .../initscripts/initscripts-1.0/volatiles | 2 -- > .../systemd/systemd/00-create-volatile.conf | 1 - > meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_5.4.9.bb | 1 - > 5 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) >