On 9/15/2010 4:51 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:14 PM, James Cameronqu...@laptop.org wrote:
For interest, I've compared the time it takes to fs-update using
OpenFirmware versus a Linux kernel and shell mediated installation
method.
Why not compared to (linux-based)
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:15 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
What is interesting about the filesystem result is that it takes longer
despite writing far less data; 1.6 GB out of 4 GB. And there was no
ext3 journal involved during the write.
But probably a lot of fs updates.
That'd
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 05:42:03PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:15 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
What is interesting about the filesystem result is that it takes longer
despite writing far less data; 1.6 GB out of 4 GB. ?And there was no
ext3 journal
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:01 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
No, certainly not. There's no justification for either mke2fs or
resize2fs to write to blocks that do not form part of the filesystem
metadata. Why would you want to zero-out blocks anyway?
Thinking of a deployment trying
On 9/16/2010 1:28 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:01 PM, James Cameronqu...@laptop.org wrote:
No, certainly not. There's no justification for either mke2fs or
resize2fs to write to blocks that do not form part of the filesystem
metadata. Why would you want to zero-out
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 07:28:39PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:01 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
No, certainly not. ?There's no justification for either mke2fs or
resize2fs to write to blocks that do not form part of the filesystem
metadata. ?Why would
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:53 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
I agree, this should work. It seems about the same amount of work as
building all images small and resizing them up on first boot.
Indeed.
The core idea that is interesting is having the firstboot be a
special boot that
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On Sep 15, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Esteban Arias wrote:
Hi,
it is possible reduce the time of flashing xo-1.5?
Dextrose version, delays 20 mins.
thanks,
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Esteban Arias
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