AW: DOC vs. IDE

[Christopher Bergeron]

That actually sounds like a brilliant idea.  I wonder if anyone on the 
list can confirm performance... does the CFcard appear as a standard IDE 
disk or is there a driver or anything necessary?

-CB

Baab, Ingo wrote:

>Hello Christopher,
>mounting a CF-2-IDE-Adapter /w CF-Card would be 
>a little bit faster than the rotating thing, or?
>--ingo
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>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: Christopher Bergeron [mailto:christopher at bergeron.com]
>Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2002 17:23
>An: linuxbios at clustermatic.org
>Betreff: Re: DOC vs. IDE
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>you can't fit X onto the DoC you can buy today.
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>Fasted boot I've seen is with the kernel in DoC, then mount /dev/hda1 as
>/.
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>ron
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>Even an X like Qt embedded?  My Zaurus only has 32Mb on it, and it boots
>into X in about 4 seconds.  While I don't expect _that_ speedy of a boot, I
>would think I could achieve significantly less than 35(ish) seconds it takes
>now.  Also, did you factor in the IDE spinup boot delay of having an IDE  /.
>directory?  If the DOC+IDE is faster, do you mean throughput wise or time
>wise?  I'm referring to an earlier message that you replied to Todd Johnson
>and his boot times (message below).  It seemed as if the 2 emails conflict
>in what they're saying, so I just wanted to ask for a little clarification
>(not doubting you, just a little unclear on the principle).
>
>Essentially what I'm wondering is if a small footprint X could be booted
>into via DOC and if it would be faster than DOC+IDE (considering the IDE
>spinup delay).  
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>Your thoughts?
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>Ronald G Minnich wrote:
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>On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
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>Can anyone give me advice on what will acheive the fastest boot time?
> My options are the LinuxBIOS coupled with a DOC root or with root
> configured on hda1 (IDE).  I boot into X and I'll need standard
> modules loaded.  I'd like to fit the entire install on a DOC but only
> IF I'll get a faster load/boot.
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>you can't fit X onto the DoC you can buy today.
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>Fasted boot I've seen is with the kernel in DoC, then mount /dev/hda1 as
>/.
>
>ron
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>On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Todd E. Johnson wrote:
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> BTW, it seems that there is no booting action (Based on the Serial
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>>output) until the HDD spins up.  Is this a result of me keeping my root
>>file system on the HDD?
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>you can't do anything until the HDD spins up, and yes it's because you've
>god file system on the HDD. There's not much to be done for this.
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>ron
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