Eelco Dolstra e2dbfbdcf4 * Use writeback caching for virtual disks instead of writethrough ...

caching.  This makes a huge performance difference (e.g. from 4 MB/s
  `dd' throughput to 140 MB/s on the Hydra machines).  As the QEMU
  manual says: "Some block drivers perform badly with
  ‘cache=writethrough’, most notably, qcow2."

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2010-06-13 23:36:55 +00:00

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config

* Put e2fsprogs etc. in mountall's $PATH so that fsck works.

2010-06-04 15:35:32 +00:00

hardware

Adding support for the rt73 usb wifi nic firmware loading.

2009-09-18 20:49:12 +00:00

installer

* Seems that we don't need the aufs2 mount helper.

2010-05-28 09:35:24 +00:00

misc

Adding the Tor service

2010-05-16 16:20:00 +00:00

programs

* Rename the pwdutils' module to shadow'.

2010-06-02 21:16:27 +00:00

security

* Use the shadow' package instead of pwdutils', `pam_login' and

2010-06-02 21:10:48 +00:00

services

* PostgreSQL / MySQL: depend on the "filesystem" event.

2010-06-13 20:59:49 +00:00

system

* Put all of /var/run (not just /var/run/nscd) on a tmpfs to simplify

2010-06-09 22:29:06 +00:00

tasks

* nfsd: run rpc.nfsd from the pre-start script since it's not actually

2010-06-08 16:01:31 +00:00

testing

* In the NixOS tests, send syslog messages to the serial port (so that

2010-03-09 13:31:20 +00:00

virtualisation

* Use writeback caching for virtual disks instead of writethrough

2010-06-13 23:36:55 +00:00

module-list.nix

* Rename the pwdutils' module to shadow'.

2010-06-02 21:16:27 +00:00

rename.nix

* Improve obsolete/deprecated option warnings.

2010-05-07 15:14:50 +00:00