[Fedora-livecd-list] RFC- improving livecd installer efficiency
Douglas McClendon
dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Mon Aug 13 17:47:47 UTC 2007
Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey,
> Okay, I follow you now. Doing:
>
> - Create snapshot of os.img
> - Resize it down to the smallest possible size
> - Copy it to disk
> - Resize it back up to the size of the disk
>
> has the dual advantages of being able to install to the small possible
> disk size and not copying unallocated blocks.
>
> Sounds like a reasonable plan ... go ahead and give it a shot.
turboLiveInst has been posted, polished, reposted with real world
IMPRESSIVE performance results, and has now been collecting dust for a
couple weeks. I don't suppose you'd be kind enough to give it a review
for me Mark? Especially since you seem to understand the basic gist of
the devicemapper snapshot resize2fs technique.
I'd really like to get it into rawhide/f8t2 ASAP so that if there is
some fundamental problem with the approach that we discover and deal
with it (or trash it*) sooner rather than later.
* obviously I'm kidding. There is no problem. Its solid, elegant, and
the right answer, and nobody has suggested any reason to the contrary.
Regards,
-dmc
>
> Cheers,
> Mark.
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