linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches

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Message-ID: <20090510085957.1c15b208@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 10 May 2009 08:59:57 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@...il.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches

On Sun, 10 May 2009 08:20:05 -0700
Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:

> On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:34:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 May 2009 09:19:23 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> > 
> > >  We need to be able to support large number of partitions at boot
> > > time. 
> > 
> > I suspect that the intersection between (systems which need to shave
> > boot time to the minimum) and (systems which have lots of
> > partitions) is quite small?
> 
> No, not at all, lots of desktops have one or two disks with 15+
> partitions.  Those users want fast boot times as well.

if partitions > 15 don't have stable numbers surely we could fix
that....


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