Re: compression support in kmod
On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 13:29:00 +0100, Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> wrote:
>I volunteer as test subject for that experiment. I would appreciate even
>small steps, considering the current laptop in front of me with average
>magnetic HDD. Over a minute boot time, which is insane and IMHO mostly
>caused by the storm of IO operations required nowadays.
>
>And seriously, today a kernel with a couple of extra modules takes about
>200MB. I remember times when you could install a whole desktop
>installation in that space.
>
>Regards,
>Eduard.
Just out of curiosity, how much of that time between "Booting the
kernel" and the switch to graphics mode? Module compression isn't
likely to eat more than half of that time.
Greetings
Marc
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