Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Who is working on what?

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> 
>> Bruce Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Currently it appears that all binaries go into memory.
>>> Is that to make it easier for security updates?
>>> (add patches without burning a new CD)
>>>
>>> I was wondering if we should make one binary directory on CD, and 
>>> another in memory.  i.e.  take the pairs:
>>>
>>>   /sbin & /usr/sbin
>>>   /bin & /usr/bin
>>>
>>> Maybe we should put one of each on CD, and the other in memory.
>>> Initially the one in memory starts out empty, but updates go there, 
>>> and the $PATH has the one in memory first, so it gets executed from
>>> memory if it exists there, otherwise it runs direct from CD.
>>
>>
>>
>> We have most of the stuff in the ramdisk because we (Friedrich and I) 
>> don't think CD drives are reliable enough for constant access. 
> 
> 
> To be precise you convinced my a long time ago that CD drives are not
> reliable and that it's better to have all in the ramdisk. I personally
> don't have a problem with that as all devil boxes I installed lately
> got at least 512M of RAM anyways. I guess in the long run we'll be
> unsing flash disk or usb flash drives to reduce the amount of moving
> parts in our firewalls and/or servers.
> 

That's my goal, too. To only problem is that the majority of our users 
(private) uses old hardware (like me), which is not very so reliable.
That's the reason why the first step should be to move the 
not-so-often-used binaries to the CD.
I think we should release 1.0 before we think about moving most of the 
stuff onto the storage media.

cya
   Heiko