Eduard Bloch wrote... > I volunteer as test subject for that experiment. I would appreciate even > small steps, considering the current laptop in front of me with average > magnetic HDD. Over a minute boot time, which is insane and IMHO mostly > caused by the storm of IO operations required nowadays.
At the risk of damping your expectations - I was surprised if there was
as noticeable improvement. Perhaps on broken (i.e. slow) bootloaders
where a smaller initrd gets loaded faster. Otherwise I'd expect the
reduced I/O doesn't count compared to everything else that happens.
> And seriously, today a kernel with a couple of extra modules takes about
> 200MB. I remember times when you could install a whole desktop
> installation in that space.
<Yorkshire man>200MB? Luxury!</>
Christoph
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