Re: 2 Terabyte install

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Clifford Beshers wrote:

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> Our customers have complained about our boot times, so we've been 
> tracking things down and fixing them.  We were doing two passes of 
> mounting everything, one pass to figure out what was there, another to 
> let the traditional 'mountall' init script do its work.  We were 
> assuming that the mount times were constant and small.  But as the 
> disks are getting bigger, the second mount is noticeable, so we're 
> fixing that.  The first mount is definitely noticeable on the 2T 
> machine, but we figure if we do our jobs right, people should rarely 
> be rebooting anyway.
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> Cliff
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Well, if people care enough about it, we can optimize it at a pretty 
small cost in time, and we will do so if a sponsor like Lindows asks us 
for it.  Otherwise we'll focus on getting that compression plugin out 
the door, etc.....