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." svn path=/nixos/branches/boot-order/; revision=22248		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