> $ time sudo make testimage > $ time sudo make hostimage > > Both with and without the patch. I get (for Fedora 16): with patch (lazy) without patch testimage: 24.3 real 25.8 real 30.2 user 30.7 user 4.5 sys 4.9 sys hostimage: 8.4 real 9.3 real 8.1 user 8.4 user 1.5 sys 1.9 real Did the cpio run in parallel? cpio reads from a pipe just fine. cpio needs enhancement: a flag argument for "no overwrite", and another for "clone the ownership and permissions on created directories" [else a copied path "a/b/c/d/e" which must create any of a, b, c, or d will not reproduce the existing ownership and permissions on those directories.] -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html