On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Levi Pearson <[email protected]> wrote:
> The tftp protocol, which is the "standard" method of network booting > Linux, is > horrifically slow. Here's one datapoint. Over gigabit ethernet, I typically see tftp downloads that run at a bit over seven megabytes per second. Yes, it's a lot slower than local disk and a lot slower than the network itself, but I wouldn't call it "horrific" if one is downloading only a few tens of megabytes over tftp. Other parts of the system startup are likely to have a greater impact on boot time than smallish tftp downloads over gigE. (Subjectively, tftp over 100 megabit ethernet is a lot more painful, though I haven't measured the actual corresponding download speed.) As the man said, YMMV, etc. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
