[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] cleanupDeleted and container_size - saves 5.5% output size on f7livecd-i686

[Douglas McClendon]

Phillip Lougher wrote:
> Douglas McClendon wrote:
>  
>>
>> Finally, (for any spectators reading this far), what you mentioned 
>> about sorting by access time, is one of a few key factors I had in 
>> mind for drastically reducing livecd boot time.  It's a bit trickier 
>> for fedora than for kubuntu, because of the ext3 image file versus 
>> native squashfs, but it should be doable.
>>
> 
> Yes.  Another idea which I'm in the process of adding to Squashfs is
> selective metadata prefetch.  Currently even with file sorting, you
> still experience some disk head seeking when inode and directory
> information is read.  If on filesystem mount some or all of the
> metadata was prefetched this would minimise seek time.

Why stop at metadata ;)

:) :) :)

I really love device mapper.

-dmc