Re: Device detection?

[Michele Bini <mibin@tin.it>]

On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 08:38:56PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Rob Browning writes:
> 
> > Presuming that most people won't have lockups, the overall inconvenience
> > might be less this way, particularly if it dramatically cuts the time to
> > run successful tests.
> 
> I'm not sure I see why checkpointing every test should be particularly
> slow.

Because you have to wait after every test for the checkpoint to
be written to disk and the disk to be flushed (and disk's builtin
cache to be flushed, too).

I think we'll need to add a particular runlevel to implement this,
since detection is a process that may require running across
reboots.

-Michele