> hehehhe, thanks. i'm not like desperate, but when i hear of other > people's kernel compilations taking under 2 hours never mind 10 minutes
The worst I remember: over 30 hours on an old 16 MHz 80386. The best: certainly under 2 minutes, likely under 1 by now. > or so, i started wondering if i could improve that time or not. looks like > i could do some of what you said (i already have xfs fs, and i think i If you have xfs, try the others. I doubt XFS is best for this. Note the options I gave for Reiserfs and ext2. With recent kernels, a swap file is as fast as a swap partition.
