make /var/lib/dpkg a ramdisk :(

[Michael Prokop]

* Thomas Lange <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de> [Wed May 19, 2010 at 03:17:42AM +0200]:
> >>>>> On Tue, 18 May 2010 17:28:38 +0200, Juergen Kahnert <Juergen.Kahnert at DESY.de> said:

[/var/lib/dpkg being a ramdisk]

>> Not every device being installed with FAI has so much memory...
> You can write a hook and redefine mkramdisk as a noop subroutine.

Since FAI 3.3.4 setting FAI_NORAMDISK=1 is supported to skip the
mkramdisk feature.

> A future version of FAI will have a variable, which holds a list
> of all directories that will be put into a ramdisk. If this list
> is empty, no ramdisk will be created. But it's not yet
> implemented.

Nice idea.

regards,
-mika-
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