[Registry] [Bug 589629] Re: LiveCD layout optimisation

2010-12-04 Thread Mantas Kriaučiūnas
** Also affects: baltix Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for Debian. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589629 Title: LiveCD layout optimisation _

[Registry] [Bug 589629] Re: LiveCD layout optimisation

2010-11-26 Thread Louis Simard
Personally I don't know how to go about looking for the root cause of this 180 MB increase, or I would. On ext3 the new disc did not do this. It must be something related to ext4. This is all I know. Thanks for your review, Martin. :) -- LiveCD layout optimisation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Registry] [Bug 589629] Re: LiveCD layout optimisation

2010-11-26 Thread Martin Pitt
Personally I think that six seconds won at livefs boot time (at a boot time of two minutes) isn't enough of an advantage to sacrifice 180 MB of installed size. ** Changed in: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- LiveCD layout optimisation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589

[Registry] [Bug 589629] Re: LiveCD layout optimisation

2010-10-10 Thread Louis Simard
As I just saw and posted about on ubuntu-devel-discuss [1], using the new squashfs layout file for a CD made Ubuntu's hard-disk install size 180 MB bigger on ext4. I presume it's due to extent allocation breaking due to the pattern of file copies. The status of this bug now depends on whether Live

[Registry] [Bug 589629] Re: LiveCD layout optimisation

2010-06-15 Thread Louis Simard
This sort file makes ISOLINUX bring up the screen with boot options in less than 2 seconds after first displaying ISOLINUX, by putting every file read by ISOLINUX in sequence right at the start of the disc. ** Attachment added: "sort file for mkisofs (updated)" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/503

[Registry] [Bug 589629] Re: LiveCD layout optimisation

2010-06-14 Thread Louis Simard
The boot time AFTER the mksquashfs optimisation is 1 minute 59.09 seconds. Of note: I had to work around bug 512172 in pybootchartgui to generate the images. And this is on the Jolteon defined above. ** Attachment added: "Bootchart after optimisations" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50303183/bo

[Registry] [Bug 589629] Re: LiveCD layout optimisation

2010-06-14 Thread Louis Simard
Now doing tests with the bootchart package, which was added to Maverick dailies on 2010-06-10. Thanks cjwatson! The boot time BEFORE the mksquashfs optimisation is 2 minutes 05.33 seconds. ** Attachment added: "Bootchart before optimisations" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50302818/bootchart.pn

[Registry] [Bug 589629] Re: LiveCD layout optimisation

2010-06-10 Thread Louis Simard
I did preliminary results for this bug with a stopwatch. I'll explain my methodology in this post and put my results in the next one. -- Definitions -- "Boot sequence time" is the time it takes between the "ISOLINUX" screen that appears when boot starts, and the Lucid orange-purple background jus

[Registry] [Bug 589629] Re: LiveCD layout optimisation

2010-06-10 Thread Louis Simard
Boot sequence time | Original | Reordered | Verdict ---+++- Flareon| 2 min 32.9 | 2 min 08.1 | 16.3% impr. Jolteon| 1 min 43.2 | 1 min 34.1 | 8.9% impr. Jigglypuff | 1 min 59.5 | 1 min 47.6 | 10.0% impr. A

[Registry] [Bug 589629] Re: LiveCD layout optimisation

2010-06-04 Thread Louis Simard
** Changed in: debian-cd (Debian) Importance: Unknown => Undecided ** Changed in: debian-cd (Debian) Remote watch: Debian Bug tracker #584528 => None -- LiveCD layout optimisation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589629 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry A

[Registry] [Bug 589629] Re: LiveCD layout optimisation

2010-06-04 Thread Louis Simard
** Branch linked: lp:~louis-simard/livecd-rootfs/layout-opt -- LiveCD layout optimisation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589629 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for Debian. ___

[Registry] [Bug 589629] Re: LiveCD layout optimisation

2010-06-04 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: debian-cd (Debian) Status: Unknown => New -- LiveCD layout optimisation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589629 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for Debian. ___

[Registry] [Bug 589629] Re: LiveCD layout optimisation

2010-06-04 Thread Louis Simard
** Also affects: debian-cd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #584528 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584528 ** Also affects: debian-cd (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584528 Importanc