From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756037AbZEJPqt (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 May 2009 11:46:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753573AbZEJPqi (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 May 2009 11:46:38 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:49520 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752628AbZEJPqh (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 May 2009 11:46:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 08:20:05 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Andrew Morton Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Fabio Comolli , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches Message-ID: <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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090509223454.4642753d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. thanks, greg k-h