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Lindsay Roberts wrote:
> * Increases romfs partition size limit from 2GB to 4GB.
> * Adds new derivative of romfs filesystem (rom2fs) with
>  block aligned regular file data to bring performance
>  parity with ext2/3. This is about 225% of the read
>  speed of the existing romfs.

Why does block alignment of files have any influence on speed for a rom 
based ( no seek time ) filesystem?