gson@ wrote: > > OMIT_SWAPIMG was added to save time of dd'ing sd0root images > > to memory sticks. wd0root images include swap partition for emulators. > > Thank you for the background. Omitting the swap area saves less than > 10% of the time to dd the image (128 MB out of 1536 MB); if there are > no other reasons to maintain two separate images, I don't think it's > worth it just for that.
No problem for me to merge sd0root and wd0root (i.e. emuimage and usbimage in distrib/i386/liveimage) if fstab(5) can be shared. > > Note one more TODO item is to use makefs(8) -O (offset) option like > > src/distrib/utils/embedded/mkimage, to avoid concat MBR + ffs image files. > > That would be good, but I think it's orthogonal to the issue at hand. Ok. It's in my todo list for many years.. > Also, it looks like it would require adding an offset option to > installboot as well. Ah, indeed. --- Izumi Tsutsui
