Re: New fast(?)-boot results on ARM

Jamie Lokier
2009-08-14T18:46:56Z

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