Speeding up live cd boot through optimizing file layout

[Hervé Fache]

In this case, the most used file should be close to the external edge!
This might mean at the end of the list?

Anyway, too late for Dapper.

On 5/29/06, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:46:06AM -0300, Hervé Fache wrote:
> > Indeed, moving the squashfs at the end of the CD might make for a
> > higher speed, as most optical drives work with constant angular speed
> > (or 2 or 3 angular speeds that depend on head position), and therefore
> > have higher linear speed on the external edge.
>
> That seems unlikely to make much of a difference, as the squashfs occupies
> almost the entire disk anyway.  The position of files within the squashfs is
> a reasonable indicator or their position on the CD as well.