Re: compression support in kmod

2017-01-02 Thread Christoph Biedl
Christian Seiler wrote... > tl;dr: I don't think compression modules will increase boot times > on HDDs in any significant manner, but it may be a good idea to > support that just to reduce the amount of space required on disk. Well, sometimes I remember I was shocked to learn in the MBR partitio

Re: compression support in kmod

2016-12-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 13:29:00 +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: >I volunteer as test subject for that experiment. I would appreciate even >small steps, considering the current laptop in front of me with average >magnetic HDD. Over a minute boot time, which is insane and IMHO mostly >caused by the storm of

Re: compression support in kmod

2016-12-30 Thread Christian Seiler
s insane and IMHO mostly >> caused by the storm of IO operations required nowadays. > > At the risk of damping your expectations - I was surprised if there was > as noticeable improvement. Perhaps on broken (i.e. slow) bootloaders > where a smaller initrd gets loaded faster. Note

Re: compression support in kmod

2016-12-29 Thread Christoph Biedl
Eduard Bloch wrote... > I volunteer as test subject for that experiment. I would appreciate even > small steps, considering the current laptop in front of me with average > magnetic HDD. Over a minute boot time, which is insane and IMHO mostly > caused by the storm of IO operations required nowada

Re: compression support in kmod

2016-12-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Josh Triplett [Sun, Dec 25 2016, 07:59:18PM]: > Marco d'Itri wrote: > > Do we want it or not? > > And if we do, should we support gzip, XZ or both? > > > > From time to time some user requests enabling this feature, but since > > Debian kernels do not use it I am not sure that it is a go

Re: compression support in kmod

2016-12-25 Thread Josh Triplett
Marco d'Itri wrote: > Do we want it or not? > And if we do, should we support gzip, XZ or both? > > From time to time some user requests enabling this feature, but since > Debian kernels do not use it I am not sure that it is a good idea to add > one or two library dependencies to kmod. Does it

compression support in kmod

2016-12-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
Do we want it or not? And if we do, should we support gzip, XZ or both? From time to time some user requests enabling this feature, but since Debian kernels do not use it I am not sure that it is a good idea to add one or two library dependencies to kmod. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Descrip