Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Sat Dec 20 23:40:19 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 16:58 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> Turning off bootchart: 30s
> >>
> >> So all in all we have nearly accomplished the 30 Second Startup Feature 
> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/30SecondStartup.
> > 
> > Well, no; not if this requires data=writeback.  We can't ship that way,
> > it's a potential security hole.  You don't want someone's maildir
> > suddenly containing pieces of /etc/shadow or whatnot.  The old data that
> > may be exposed by data=writeback may not belong to that user.
> > 
> > -Eric
> > 
> 
> So, we switch to xfs as the default FS? :-)

Not until someone writes an XFS filesystem shrinker.
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