[Gllug] /etc under version control

[Nix]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Rich Walker yowled:
> Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:
> 
>> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Rich Walker stipulated:
>>> EXT3 journal
>>> Database journal
>>
>> Why bother journalling a ramdisk anyway? It's not as though partial
>> writes are even possible.
> 
> I meant: put the journal on the ramdisk (I may have been ... intoxicated

Ah. That's still not terribly useful unless the ramdisk is battery-backed
or something. More useful then, I suppose.

>>> Plus they tested it for "read-throughput", comparing it to
>>> read-throughput of a 15k RPM hard-drive, one over PCI, the other
>>> connected to the mobo chipset.
>>
>> Duh? It's going to be, well, much faster. Testing RAM for throughput is
>> vaguely useful, but *comparing it to a disk*... *why*?
> 
> I *did* say it was PC Pro, didn't I?

Yes. Ergo crappy MS-beholden trade press :/

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