sanjay nadkarni (Laptop) wrote: > Alok Aggarwal wrote: >> Hi Jan, >> >> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, jan damborsky wrote: >> >> >>>> DC: Testing should be platform neutral. >>>> >>> I am thinking if there might be some issues with respect >>> to endianness during process of building microroot. >>> >>> For instance, currently x86 microroot can't be mounted >>> on Sparc machine, as UFS layout is platform dependent >>> because of endianness. I am not sure if similar might >>> apply to DCFS which will be used for Sparc. >>> >>> Speaking about process of building microroot, in order to unify >>> it I think we could consider if we might switch to DCFS for x86 >>> microroot as well (in Distro Constructor). >>> > This was considered for 2008.11 but then dropped because of size on > the media. A compressed UFS file system is still about 10MB smaller > than compressed DCFS file system. In general for the liveCD project > this is not a big win at this point since kernel and drivers are not > compressed.
It seems that the same might be observed in AI case as well, since LiveCD and AI microroots are similar. > The eventual goal of course is to have uniformity across both > platforms. I agree. Jan
