intrigeri wrote:
> * I confirm sajolida's findings: the more compressed SquashFS, if
>   badly ordered, increases boot time from USB on bare metal by 36 to
>   55%, depending on the machine. We don't want that.
> 
> * Compressing the SquashFS more *and* reordering the SquashFS, in the
>   worst case (from USB, slow machine), makes the boot take 8% more
>   time; in the best case (from DVD, fast machine), it makes it 45%
>   faster.
> 
> Current experimental branch implements both: compressing the SquashFS
> more, and reordering it. I'd like to see this land into 1.2, if not in
> 1.1.1:

I tried again experimental (4295238) on the same USB with the same
installation method and I get 64 seconds. I got 56 seconds with 1.1
right after that. So yes, now the increase (14%) seems reasonable.

In the previous build that ended up being super slow I also had a
MKSQUASHFS_OPTIONS = "-comp gzip" as environment variable from my
.bashrc (I removed it) :(

>  * The slightly slower boot in some cases seems acceptable to me, once
>    we balance it with shorter download time, more space for IUKs on
>    the system partition, and the fact that it (temporarily)
>    workarounds the problems caused by #7462.

I confirm that on this experimental ISO isohybrid with the old versions
do not return any warning. The ISO image is 954M (in whatever unit it
returned by `ls -lh`).

-- 
sajolida

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