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From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: New fast(?)-boot results on ARM
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:06:48 +0200
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To: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>, 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

Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:43:05PM +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:04:57PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>>>> rsc@thebe:~$ microcom | ptx_ts "U-Boot 2.0.0-rc9"
> 
>>>> [  7.137924] <  0.059316> starting udev
>>>> [  7.147925] <  0.010001> mounting tmpfs at /dev
>>>> [  7.182299] <  0.034374> creating static nodes
>>>> [  7.410613] <  0.228314> starting udevd...done
>>>> [  8.811097] <  1.400484> waiting for devices...done
> 
> And suddenly devtmpfs sounds like a good idea ;-)
> 
> We use static device nodes during boot, and later
> setup busybox mdev for hotplug.
> 
> 
> Johannes
> 

Yeah, I agree, do you really need udevd, device file creation at every
start-up in /dev? Usually static devices nodes and mdev for hotplug are
enough or at least you could use a simple script to create only once
time the devices file (mdev -s). About the fs, do you really need a
rootfs with ubifs? I mean, you could "split" your fs. You could use a
read-only fs (SquashFS for example) for your root-fs, ubifs for
permanent storage data (mounted under /data for example) and a ram fs
for volatile data.

Marco