Re: RPM filesystem?

[Mike Hearn <mike navi cx>]

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:31:51 -0400, Tim Daly wrote:
> a simple question: why unpack RPMS? Clearly Linux itself can be run
> compressed (Live CDs do that now). Given the bottleneck of slow disk
> and fast CPU it might be faster to load the compressed image, unpack
> it, and execute it then it would to load it directly. 

This is true on CD drives which are very slow compared to hard disks, but
I think it would hurt performance for hard disk installs. Besides raw
transfer speed is not normally the problem with loading things from hard
disks, it's thinks like seek time+rotational latency.

thanks -mike