On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:48 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
> Although then the other question is what to do when we're not squashed.
> Do we just then want to put it on the ext3fs?
Here is the heart of something I think I mentioned that was wrong a long
time ago. I mentioned something like "osmin can't live on the squashfs
for obvious reasons". Actually, the truth is "osmin can't live on the
ext3 for obvious reasons". And the subtle error there kept the idea out
of my mind.
The simple answer is just don't do the osmin bits if you're not using
squashfs. Given that it's a debug option only, that's probably not
crazy
But...
It occurs to me that because of what anaconda is doing, I.e. a big 2G
dd, it may actually be problematic that squashfs pages out(?) the osmin
data, and needs to reread it from cdrom often, thus screwing up a nice
big linear seek-free read.
Famous last words are "it shouldn't really make a difference" ;)
Jeremy