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Tiny Core Base => TCB News => Release Candidate Testing => Topic started by: roberts on January 13, 2009, 09:42:36 PM

Title: tinycore_1.1rc1
Post by: roberts on January 13, 2009, 09:42:36 PM

Change log for Tiny Core v1.1rc1
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/release/tinycore_1.1rc1.iso (http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/release/tinycore_1.1rc1.iso)

* Updated tc-config to allow combing persistence options.
* Added .ashrc and moved alias definitions.
* Dropped limited zoneinfo database - Now use TZ direct offsets see boot F3 for examples.
* Implemented "user" boot option.
* Bug fix in crond incorrect function library call now fixed.
* Fixed typo in F3
* Changed user nobody to 65534

Files likely in your backup or other persistent storage:
.profile

Title: Re: tinycore_1.1rc1
Post by: curaga on January 17, 2009, 10:45:13 AM

Let's mount ext2/3 with relatime:

Quote

--- rebuildfstab        Sat Jan 17 19:12:40 2009
+++ rebuildfstab.new    Sat Jan 17 19:15:35 2009
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
   case "$FSTYPE" in
     ntfs) OPTIONS="$OPTIONS,ro,umask=000" ;;
     vfat|msdos) OPTIONS="${OPTIONS},umask=000" ;;
+    ext2|ext3) OPTIONS="${OPTIONS},relatime" ;;
     swap) OPTIONS="defaults"; MOUNTPOINT="none" ;;
   esac
   if [ "$MOUNTPOINT" != "none" ]; then

This saves some write cycles, because it skips most file access time updates. It still allows apps that rely on access times to work properly, so adding it is a win-win.

Title: Re: tinycore_1.1rc1
Post by: roberts on January 25, 2009, 07:29:35 AM

Thanks! It will be in 1.1rc2.