Re: [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches

[Greg KH]

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:34:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 9 May 2009 09:19:23 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >  We need to be able to support large number of partitions at boot
> > time. 
> 
> I suspect that the intersection between (systems which need to shave
> boot time to the minimum) and (systems which have lots of partitions)
> is quite small?

No, not at all, lots of desktops have one or two disks with 15+
partitions.  Those users want fast boot times as well.

thanks,

greg k-h
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