16.02.2012 23:35, Erich Titl пишет: > Andrew > > on 16.02.2012 21:59, Andrew wrote: >> I finished reviewing of the kernel config, and updated kernel to current >> 3.2.6 >> One of modification - to use LZO kernel compression to i486 kernel (it >> has faster decompression speed, but also have worse compression ratio). >> IMHO some tens (or hundreds) of KBs on storage isn't too much cost for >> some booting speed-up (decompression of kernel may take tens of seconds >> on slow CPU). > So what, I hardly ever boot that bloody thing. It is supposed to run > forever and I never want to get into this M$ way of thinking.....just > reboot and everything is OK. > Why do you want to waste space for something that is pretty irrelevant > (at least to me) :-( Please remember some of us are running _very_ > small systems. Now after the era of floppies some I believe still run > off a CD. > > cheers > > Erich > Minimal CD capacity is 50..60MB (credit card-style CDs), do you think that it's really matters, how much place will require Linux kernel - 1.2MB or 1.7MB for i486 PC? 4.x branch kernel with LZMA may be decompressed for tens of seconds, possible - up to 1 minute on very slow PC (i486SX-33 for ex.). I think that it'll be good to reduce this time even by cost of disk space - now we aren't limited to tiny floppy, so we can spent some KBs of storage if this will greatly increase boot speed. In any case there is a place for discussions.
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