On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 13:11, Anton Aylward wrote:
I don't understand this obsession with booting.
If my file system is already in RAM ....
It's one aspect. For a server.. it's not so interesting... for a desktop machine that is restarted into other OS installs it starts to be a factor. The key factor for me considering SSD drives on my main machine is/was to speed up general I/O. As Graham has pointed out, using an SSD so everything loads fast all the time (assuming you are using a good quality SSD with high throughput vs cheap ones with low data rates). Another consideration... RAM drive. If I've got.. say.. 16GB or more of system RAM.. what about pre-loading the entire OS into a RAMdrive... that could be.. interesting. Reminds me of the i-RAM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM but I digress. On that note, I've been running my system with noatime now for a couple of days... the only difference I've seen (compared to the defaults from an 11.2 install on ReiserFS) is that OOo now takes forever to open the file dialogs to open/save as. I don't know if this is related to noatime or something else I've done (I'm a compulsive tinkerer so PEBKAC is entirely possible). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org