Parallel Booting

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 08:26:07PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> But anyway, I was merely responding to the comment about SSDs
> rendering this discussion moot.  Obviously disk access speed is a
> factor in startup time, but I don't think it's anything close to the
> dominating factor.

>From testing with an i-RAM I would concur with this statement. There are cases
it does appear to be significant like big software builds but booting is other
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