On Jul 14 2008, at 12:07, Erik Garrison was caught saying: > There is an existing ticket to address this issue > (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2072). This ticket suggests that we could > add LZO support to OFW in order to implement LZO-compressed data nodes > in the filesystem. > > In this scheme OFW would require LZO support to boot a kernel which > resides on an LZO-compressed fs. But an alternative is to implement a > partitioning scheme in which user data resides on a LZO-compressed > partition and the system data resides on a zlib-compressed partition. > This would provide us with good compression for system components > (saving space) but would also allow users to write data much more > quickly. That said, implementing LZO compression across the entire > system might improve system responsiveness by a noticeable margin, so it > might be worthwhile. Testing is required.
Partitioning is already on our roadmap, so if we just put /boot and other OFW needed data in a non-LZO partition, we can live w/o needing to update OFW to handle LZO. ~Deepak -- Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel