On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 09:44 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Guilherme Salgado > <salg...@canonical.com> wrote: > > a) unpack the binary tarball to a tmp dir, install the hwpack (which > > may cause lots of data to be written) and then move that to the SD card > > or > > b) unpack the tarball straight into the sd card (as is done currently) > > and then install the hwpack > > > > I'm leaning towards a) because of the poor write speed of SD cards, but > > if anybody knows of any reasons why I should go with b) now's the time > > to tell me. :) > > Would the refactoring allow to try out whether a) or b) is better > without guessing?
Not without some more work. And even if I did that, the results would be specific to my hardware (5400rpm disk and a couple different SD cards), so I don't think it'd be of much use. -- Guilherme Salgado <https://launchpad.net/~salgado> _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev