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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: 2 Terabyte install
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 22:43:28 -0700
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To: Clifford Beshers <clifford.beshers@lindows.com>
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Clifford Beshers wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>
> Cliff
>
>
>
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.....