On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:26 AM, John Reiser <jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> drago01 wrote: >>> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> [snip] >>>> for those who are going to the plumbers conference... Auke Kok and I >>>> will present there on how to make a Fedora based system boot in 5 >>>> seconds... >>>> >>>> and yes a form of readahead was needed to achieve that ;-) >>> >>> wtf? >>> without a custom kernel I doubt that this is possible.... >> >> Shut down and boot an Apple Macintosh running current OS X 10.5.4. >> As part of shutting down, it builds a RAM disk of what will be needed >> at next boot, then saves the RAM disk to hard disk. (I have not seen >> the work by Arjan+Auke, but I boot many kinds of systems.) > > Interesting, so it's almost a hibernate in disguise. (I haven't > touched a Mac since 10.4) More like a "JIT"-optimized initrd, perhaps. 10.5 has some interesting optimizations, though the stricter-checking fsck is really annoying. But that's not a discussion to have here. -- Michel Salim http://hircus.jaiku.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
