Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Nov 2001 12:45:14 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: speed difference between using hard-linked and modular drives? |
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On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:26:50AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > From: "Philip Dodd" <smpcomputing@free.fr> > Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 14:15:32 +0100 > > > I think a boot time commandline option is more appropriate > > for something like this. > > In the light of what was said about embedded systems, I'm not really sure a > boot time option really is the way to go... > > All the hash tables in question are allocated dynamically, > we size them at boot time, the memory is not consumed until > the kernel begins executing. So a boottime option would be > just fine.
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