5 sec boot

Chris Ball cjb at laptop.org
Sun Oct 5 13:00:08 EDT 2008


Hi,

   > Then again, since ubifs mounts quickly, the largest reason for
   > partitioning we've had (to reduce boot time) evaporates.  There may
   > be other reasons to want partitioning, given dynamic resizing a'la
   > lvm, however.

You don't mention the fundamental reason that we need partitioning if we
go to ubifs:  we need OFW to be able to boot the system, and it doesn't
have an ubifs driver.

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>



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