On 4 March 2010 00:29, Tim Kientzle <kient...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Interesting question: What is the impact on boot speed? > It could be a lot faster to load 5MB from disk and > decompress to a 24MB image than to wait for 24MB from > disk.
Linear reads from disk are fast. :) Linear reads from the SPI flash are slower; and I think the decompression phase is quite a bit slower. I'll investigate all of this further once I've played with GEOM_ULZMA. Adrian _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
