> Actually this 2 minutes bothers me this much that I'm emailing Arch > General Mailing List is because I'm afraid my Arch would be broken if my > laptop shuts down in this process and I have to rescue it by live USB. For nearly a decade of using this particular Arch installation alone, I never had a single case of losing power while mkinitcpio was running. I wouldn’t be afraid of that scenario. And laptops are better than my PC in that manner, because you have backup power from the battery. > Does it help if it gets executed over multi threads or the bottleneck is > somewhere else? For my particular setup, running `mkinitcpio -P` yields those times: ------------------------ real 1m8.320s user 0m24.742s sys 0m12.806s ------------------------ Half of the time mkinitcpio was waiting for disk I/O. Most likely `find`, but that’s only mu guess. This is only a single computer. Unlike modern laptops it uses spinning rust for storage, but OTOH it is also running a CPU that remembers 2000s and DDR2-800 RAM. So both would affect the outcome.
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