Why updatedb doesn't traverse my external HD?

JB jb.1234abcd at gmail.com
Sat Dec 24 22:07:05 UTC 2011


T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 1:21 PM, JB <jb.1234abcd <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anything mounted on /media has to be of actual "type" of that media.
> > Btw, a CD mounted on /media, even if temporarily, represents "a persistent
> > storage device", and certainly NOT "volatile memory" (e.g. of type shm).
> >
> > I think systemd devs need to remove it - it is a pure nonsense.
> 
> /media is on tmpfs simply because it's faster to keep the mountpoints
> in memory than on disk.  That way, you don't have to hit your root
> disk just to locate something that is almost certainly on another
> disk.  It doesn't affect the mounts below it in any way.
> 
> -T.C.

Boyz and Girlz,

so this is your understanding of tmpfs ?

Systemd is a result of Windows GNU/Linux devs pretending to be UNIX devs ... 
I have already said that when we discussed systemd on Fedora dev list ...

It has to be brought up on dev list immediately.
This is bananas !

JB




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