On 09/02/10 23:04, Brian Gerkey wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Cedric Pradalier
> <
cedric.pradalier@mavt.ethz.ch> wrote:
>
>> That actually raises a question: what is the recommended procedure on a
>> read-only system. Is it better to put the cache on a tmpfs mount or is
>> it possible to generate the cache once and for all, and use it afterward?
>>
> Either one should work, though I haven't tried them. To avoid the
> chance of having stale data in the cache, I would go for the tmpfs
> solution (I know that it's a read-only filesystem, but bad cached
> values are a pain to debug).
>
> Note that for the one-time cache to work, you need to set
> ROS_CACHE_TIMEOUT=-1.0 in the environment. Otherwise, rospack will
> keep trying to rebuild the cache (and won't use the cached values).
>
> brian.
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