[Gllug] Building Intranet Kiosks

[Kieran Barry]

On 12 Jul 2001, Nix wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Kieran Barry said:
> > As someone pointed out, Jamie Zawinsky is doing this at his club, DNA
> 
> `Zawinski'.
> 
> > The bit I liked best was his fastboot.c which doesn't bother with
> > fscking the filesystems:
> 
> ... but does do a triple-sync for no good reason.
> 
> (btw *no* /sbin/halt bothers to fsck; do you mean `doesn't bother to
> unmount'?)
> 
I don't know a great deal about NFS, so I guess he runs the risk of lots
of stale connections?

> >   sync ();
> >   sleep (1);
> >   sync ();
> >   sleep (1);
> >   sync ();
> 
You have to admit that a ~2.5 second shutdown is pretty attractive.
Don't know how long it takes to boot over TFTP and NFS tho.

Regards

Kieran


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