[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] cleanupDeleted and container_size - saves 5.5% output size on f7livecd-i686
Douglas McClendon
dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Tue Aug 21 20:04:22 UTC 2007
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
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