linux-kernel - Re: New fast(?)-boot results on ARM

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Date:	Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:46:51 +0100
From:	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
To:	Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>
Cc:	Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: New fast(?)-boot results on ARM

Zan Lynx wrote:
> Or maybe its cheap and slow flash. In that case I think your only hope 
> is to make all the code as small as possible and/or find a different 
> flash filesystem that does not have to read so much of the device to 
> mount. Perhaps use a read-only compressed filesystem for the system 
> binaries and reflash it for software upgrades. Only init and mount the 
> writable flash for user-storable data well after system boot has finished.

Fwiw, logfs claims to mount quickly, but I haven't heard much about it
in recent months and http://logfs.org/logfs/ implies it's not really
stable yet.  But maybe if you're working on a prototype that doesn't
matter so much.

-- Jamie
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