[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH 6/7] anaconda: liveinst.sh: support turboLiveInst/genMinInstDelta
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Tue Sep 18 21:05:59 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:48 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > Although then the other question is what to do when we're not squashed.
> > Do we just then want to put it on the ext3fs?
>
> Here is the heart of something I think I mentioned that was wrong a long
> time ago. I mentioned something like "osmin can't live on the squashfs
> for obvious reasons". Actually, the truth is "osmin can't live on the
> ext3 for obvious reasons". And the subtle error there kept the idea out
> of my mind.
The simple answer is just don't do the osmin bits if you're not using
squashfs. Given that it's a debug option only, that's probably not
crazy
> But...
>
> It occurs to me that because of what anaconda is doing, I.e. a big 2G
> dd, it may actually be problematic that squashfs pages out(?) the osmin
> data, and needs to reread it from cdrom often, thus screwing up a nice
> big linear seek-free read.
Famous last words are "it shouldn't really make a difference" ;)
Jeremy
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