Re: New fast(?)-boot results on ARM

[Jamie Lokier]

Zan Lynx wrote:
> Or maybe its cheap and slow flash. In that case I think your only hope 
> is to make all the code as small as possible and/or find a different 
> flash filesystem that does not have to read so much of the device to 
> mount. Perhaps use a read-only compressed filesystem for the system 
> binaries and reflash it for software upgrades. Only init and mount the 
> writable flash for user-storable data well after system boot has finished.

Fwiw, logfs claims to mount quickly, but I haven't heard much about it
in recent months and http://logfs.org/logfs/ implies it's not really
stable yet.  But maybe if you're working on a prototype that doesn't
matter so much.

-- Jamie
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