Speeding up live cd boot through optimizing file layout

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:00:11AM +1000, Adam Conrad wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 01:46:11AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
> >   
> >> I have taken a shot at optimizing boot speed of Kubuntu live CD by
> >> changing layout of files on CD (no changes to live CD contents).
> >>
> >> Verifications of results by some independent person would be welcome :)
> >>     
> >
> > I thought we were already sorting the squashfs; perhaps the ordering is out
> > of date?
> >   
> No, Tollef and I were going to investigate feeding mksquashfs a sort
> file, but I believe this one never found the necessary round tuits. 
> Currently, the filesystem is just sorted in whatever squash's default
> method is (something vaguely asciibetical, I suspect).

Sounds like a good Edgy project then.

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 - mdz