Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> writes: > Hi, > > ValdikSS <iam@valdikss.org.ru> (2021-04-28): >> eatmydata-udeb package is designed to speed up the installation process. >> However, it's not used by default and could be activated only with preseed >> file or kernel cmdline argument. >> >> Please consider increasing eatmydata-udeb priority to standard in >> debian-installer overrides, for it to be used by default. This will speed up >> installation by an order on slower HDDs. >> >> It will be perfect to include this change before final Bullseye ISO release. >> >> For more information, read the post in debian-boot: >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2021/03/msg00121.html > > We already have a lot of serious problems to solve in the installer; > I wouldn't want to see possible extra perturbations due to a syscall > interceptor. > > The best would be to have that kind of change happen right at the > beginning of a release cycle, rather than in the last few weeks > before a release… > > A compromise might be thinking about backporting the change to > bullseye once it's been tested with some D-I Bookworm Alpha 1 (but > that would also be a rather important change to backport to a stable > release…). > > Happy to hear other opinions. Would it be possible to make this conditional on something being set on the kernel command-line, so that people are in a position to opt-in to using it? This seems to be an endlessly repeating dance, where the effort available to d-i seems to ebb and flow in synchronisation with the release cycle, but the opportunity to make interesting changes is in anti-phase with that. If we had a conditional looking out for e.g. "experimental=..." on the kernel command line, and then treating that as a list of things that people are trying to test, then people would be able to easily experiment with these things and report successes/failures such that we might be able to: take advantage of people that are keen to make contributions during the late phase of the release that can spend one cycle in a state where they are only used if the user opts-in. provide a trivial way of taking advantage of innovations without endangering the reliability of the default installer, where those supporting the change just need to add 'experimental=eatmydata' to the kernel command line in order to give confidence for inclusion in the next release. Obviously, there is a problem introducing such a change right now. Typical, eh ;-) Could we start out with a baby step having a new experimental-netinst flavour of ISO, which includes a list of experimental udebs in addition to the normal ones? I'm happy to put effort into making that happen BTW. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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