On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 04:54:30PM -0400, Will Woods wrote: > Blarg, I forgot to do git send-email --compose! Anyway... > > This patch series adds support for creating images that are compressed > with squashfs. They're slightly larger than straight cpio images (For > F15 images, 95M -> 122M) but they use vastly less RAM and start up much > faster. > > Additionally, they boot using dracut (like the normal system and live > images) so we can set up all sorts of crazy pre-boot stuff for debugging > etc. That's nice! > > I've ported this code to F15-era lorax and tested the resulting F15 > images; they boot and install just fine, at least on largemem systems. > There's some other F15 bug affecting my KVM installs right now, but I'm > nearly certain they'd work fine. > > There's a scratch build of the squashified F15 lorax here: > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3128565 > > Let me know what you think, I like it, mostly. I think the added complexity is worth the memory savings and faster loading. The only thing that bugged me about this was the ''' quotes instead of """, also I like the """ on a line by itself because it makes it easy to see where the docstring ends. -- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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