On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:48 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > Although then the other question is what to do when we're not squashed. > > Do we just then want to put it on the ext3fs? > > Here is the heart of something I think I mentioned that was wrong a long > time ago. I mentioned something like "osmin can't live on the squashfs > for obvious reasons". Actually, the truth is "osmin can't live on the > ext3 for obvious reasons". And the subtle error there kept the idea out > of my mind.
The simple answer is just don't do the osmin bits if you're not using squashfs. Given that it's a debug option only, that's probably not crazy > But... > > It occurs to me that because of what anaconda is doing, I.e. a big 2G > dd, it may actually be problematic that squashfs pages out(?) the osmin > data, and needs to reread it from cdrom often, thus screwing up a nice > big linear seek-free read. Famous last words are "it shouldn't really make a difference" ;) Jeremy -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
