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>


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