[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] squash osmin: saves 1.2MB of ram during LiveOS session (except install)

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 05:29 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> The attached patch implements the solution recently discussed, to avoid
> wasting 1.2M of ram during LiveOS sessions, during the non-install times
> when the 1.2M of ram for the minimized filesystem overlay is not
> actually needed.
> 
> This implementation involves putting osmin in its own squashfs, and
> copying that 12kb image to ram, as opposed to an alternative of putting
> osmin in the same squashfs as the main system image.  I chose to
> implement the seperate version, because it guarantees that the install
> will remain one long ~2G seekless cdrom read.

Applied with a tiny rename to just be osmin.img instead of
osmin.squashfs.img.  The latter doesn't add a lot of value and could be
problematic on msdos (not vfat) usb sticks

Jeremy