From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756516AbZEJSbV (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 May 2009 14:31:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754766AbZEJSbM (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 May 2009 14:31:12 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:53750 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753745AbZEJSbM (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 May 2009 14:31:12 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches From: Peter Zijlstra To: Greg KH Cc: Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Fabio Comolli , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20090510152005.GA9461@suse.de> References: <20090509143742.GA27663@kroah.com> <20090509150853.GA32394@suse.de> <20090509082233.32cbb8e4@infradead.org> <20090509161923.GA942@suse.de> <20090509223454.4642753d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090510152005.GA9461@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 20:31:03 +0200 Message-Id: <1241980263.9562.380.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 08:20 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:34:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sat, 9 May 2009 09:19:23 -0700 Greg KH wrote: > > > > > We need to be able to support large number of partitions at boot > > > time. > > > > I suspect that the intersection between (systems which need to shave > > boot time to the minimum) and (systems which have lots of partitions) > > is quite small? > > No, not at all, lots of desktops have one or two disks with 15+ > partitions. Those users want fast boot times as well. /me boggles, however does one end up with that many partitions on so few disks? /boot / /home /usr swap /usr/local /opt and I'm seriously out of sensible ideas.