Splash screens and initramdisk

Posted Sep 23, 2008 13:26 UTC (Tue) by Cato (guest, #7643)
In reply to: Splash screens and initramdisk by mjthayer
Parent article: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

Putting everything in an initramdisk is really optimising for hard disks, which have slow random I/Os. SSDs don't have this problem, so it's better to find an optimisation that works for them too.

Splash screens and initramdisk

Posted Sep 23, 2008 13:31 UTC (Tue) by mjthayer (guest, #39183) [Link] (1 responses)

Wouldn't an alternative be to optimise for the system you are running on, assuming that on the whole it will not change much from one boot to the next? And if it does change, you use the slower fallback for that boot.

Splash screens and initramdisk

Posted Sep 24, 2008 8:57 UTC (Wed) by maney (subscriber, #12630) [Link]

Hmmmm... Isn't that what Windows does, though without any very useful fallback when it fails?