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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
Cc: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
	kernel@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: New fast(?)-boot results on ARM
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:46:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090814184651.GA12021@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A85AAC4.7050505@acm.org>

Zan Lynx wrote:
> Or maybe its cheap and slow flash. In that case I think your only hope 
> is to make all the code as small as possible and/or find a different 
> flash filesystem that does not have to read so much of the device to 
> mount. Perhaps use a read-only compressed filesystem for the system 
> binaries and reflash it for software upgrades. Only init and mount the 
> writable flash for user-storable data well after system boot has finished.

Fwiw, logfs claims to mount quickly, but I haven't heard much about it
in recent months and http://logfs.org/logfs/ implies it's not really
stable yet.  But maybe if you're working on a prototype that doesn't
matter so much.

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-14 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-14 17:02 New fast(?)-boot results on ARM Robert Schwebel
2009-08-14 18:19 ` Zan Lynx
2009-08-14 18:46   ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-08-14 18:58     ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-14 18:57   ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-14 21:01     ` Linus Walleij
2009-08-14 21:15       ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-14 21:35       ` Zan Lynx
2009-08-15  6:21         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-08-14 20:04 ` Denys Vlasenko
2009-08-14 20:43   ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-15  5:59     ` Dirk Behme
2009-08-15 10:35     ` Johannes Stezenbach
2009-08-18 10:06       ` Marco Stornelli
2009-08-18 10:21         ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-18 10:34           ` Alex Riesen
2009-08-18 10:44             ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-18 10:48               ` Alex Riesen
2009-08-18 10:53                 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-09-04 16:16       ` Wolfram Sang
2009-09-09 14:33         ` Johannes Stezenbach
2009-09-10  0:03           ` Denys Vlasenko
2009-08-17 19:15     ` Tim Bird
2009-08-17 22:35       ` new ipdelay= option for faster netboot (was Re: New fast(?)-boot results on ARM) Tim Bird
2009-08-18  1:03         ` new ipdelay= option for faster netboot David Miller
2009-08-18  1:24           ` Tim Bird
2009-08-18  1:27             ` David Miller
2009-08-18  1:40               ` Tim Bird
2009-08-18  1:56                 ` David Miller
2009-08-19 11:57                 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-18  4:56               ` Denys Vlasenko
2009-08-18  5:00                 ` David Miller
2009-08-18  1:31           ` Rick Jones
2009-08-18  2:45             ` david
2009-08-18  4:56               ` Willy Tarreau
2009-08-15  6:14   ` New fast(?)-boot results on ARM Artem Bityutskiy
2009-08-18 14:06 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-08-18 15:31   ` Dirk Behme
2009-08-18 16:34     ` Marco Stornelli
2009-08-18 18:23     ` Tim Bird
2009-08-19  7:21     ` Sascha Hauer
2009-08-19 16:20       ` Dirk Behme
2009-08-20  8:57         ` Sascha Hauer

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