From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] build initramfs: speedup Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:09:30 +0200 Message-ID: <4E5E328A.5030604@redhat.com> References: <4E5DBAE4.2000205@bitwagon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E5DBAE4.2000205-Po6cBsTGB2ZWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: John Reiser Cc: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On 31.08.2011 06:39, John Reiser wrote: > This patch series saves 50% (a factor of 2) in real time before final gzip > when building initramfs for Fedora 16. > > Probably you should apply only the first six patches (1,2,3,4,5,6) > because directory symlinks and permissions aren't right after patch 7. > [I don't care about directory symlinks now; permissions are 775 instead of 755.] > I'm working on a different approach for those; it's not ready. > However, the first six patches save 25% (a factor of 4/3), > and patch 7 saves another 25% by replacing most /bin/cp with cpio. > Thanks for your work, but your patches are kind of broken. Either your mail program scrambled them, or you have a weird git or patch implementation. e.g. first diff hunk in patch 4 says @@ -863,49 +863,63 @@ filter_kernel_modules_by_path () ( but in fact it should be s.th. like @@ -863,45 +863,59 @@ filter_kernel_modules_by_path () ( All blank lines are missing in the hunks! Care to resend?