On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 08:28:02AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:23:56AM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > That what I am warring about too. If we are adding device we have to be
> > sure such device can actually exist on real hw too otherwise we may have
> > problems later.
>
> I don't understand why the constraints of real h/w have anything to do
> with this. Can you explain?
>
Each time we do something not architectural it cause us troubles later.
So constraints of real h/w is our constrains to.
> > Also 1 second on 100M file does not look like huge gain to me.
>
> Every second counts. We're trying to get libguestfs boot times down
> from 8-12 seconds to 4-5 seconds. For many cases it's an interactive
> program.
>
So what about making initrd smaller? I remember managing two
distribution in 64M flash in embedded project.
--
Gleb.
