> Have a background daemon that reads the first sector of the raw > device every 15 secs. 15 secs is typical spin down times for > internal optical drives. But it will be hard on the drive if the p= >oor > guy is kept constantly spinning for the greater part of an hour. > > Rather the install should be more streamlined such that it finishe= >s > within 30mins. A combination of Slim Install + new packaging > without scripts + not using bzip2 + the hsfs enhancements > should deliver the goods.
I think that that can easily be achieved even by optimizing the current SVR4 packaging tools. Casper
