Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:46:51 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: New fast(?)-boot results on ARM |
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Zan Lynx wrote: > Or maybe its cheap and slow flash. In that case I think your only hope > is to make all the code as small as possible and/or find a different > flash filesystem that does not have to read so much of the device to > mount. Perhaps use a read-only compressed filesystem for the system > binaries and reflash it for software upgrades. Only init and mount the > writable flash for user-storable data well after system boot has finished.
Fwiw, logfs claims to mount quickly, but I haven't heard much about it in recent months and http://logfs.org/logfs/ implies it's not really stable yet. But maybe if you're working on a prototype that doesn't matter so much.
-- Jamie
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