[Fedora-livecd-list] Performance

[Rahul Sundaram]

Glen Eustace wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:03 -0600, jeff wrote:
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>>2) Currently mkzftree is using -z 3 for compression. What is the 
>>tradeoff between -z 9 and -z 3? Certainly it will take longer to 
>>compress, but what about decompression--is it much of a CPU hit? It 
>>seems the bottleneck is reading from the CD--it's not CPU bound doing 
>>decompression (unless on a really old box). So if the files were smaller 
>>there would be less data to read in and hence the CD would run faster.
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>Is squashfs going to be a better solution ?
>My first venture into LiveCDs was using the YETAA stuff (ADIOS). They
>have used squashfs and it seemed to work quite well.  It did mean having
>to add it to the kernel. Anyone know what the plans are for having
>squashfs included in the std kernel ?
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Squashfs was submitted to LKML recently and there was some discussions 
surrouding that.  It is a likely candidate for the upstream kernel and 
is under use by several other Live CD solutions

regards
Rahul