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 From:  Manuel Kasper <mk at neon1 dot net>
 To:  Dennis Karlsson <dennis at denniskarlsson dot com>
 Cc:  <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
 Subject:  Re: [m0n0wall] 1.31 released
 Date:  Sat, 6 Mar 2010 15:51:21 +0100 
On 06.03.2010, at 15:36, Dennis Karlsson wrote:

> Is it writing to disk on this patch; "added patch to ISC-DHCP to rewrite
> lease file every 5 minutes"

No, the DHCP leases file is still stored in a memory file system (i.e. it's lost on reboot). But by
default, ISC-DHCPD only cleans up old entries in the leases file once per hour, which can lead to
large lease files (and thus MFS exhaustion on m0n0wall) on busy networks.

- Manuel