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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 20:47:22
Message-Id: 201011202246.48251.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels by Mick
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 18:59 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Mick did
2 opine thusly:
3
4 > On Saturday 20 November 2010 00:22:49 Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 > > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:21 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Neil
6 > >
7 > > Bothwick did opine thusly:
8 > > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:13:50 +0000, Mick wrote:
9 > > > > Short of measuring the latency with some system (which I wouldn't
10 > > > > know how) I have experimented with setting the /boot partition on
11 > > > > primary and logical partitions and the difference (on a stopwatch)
12 > > > > was measurable in seconds betweeen having said partition on a
13 > > > > primary and having it on a logical.
14 > > >
15 > > > Are you talking about GRUB loading time, kernel loading or what?
16 > > > Since /boot isn't normally mounted or used once the kernel is loaded, I
17 > > > don't see how relevant this is.
18 > >
19 > > And:
20 > >
21 > > Boot time differences measured in *seconds*?
22 > >
23 > > fifty bucks says his fsck number came up
24 >
25 > Yes, I'm talking about GRUB loading time.
26 >
27 > This is a (touch wood) healthy fs which has been serving my wife happily
28 > for the last 4 years ...
29
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31 Was the speed difference a once-off, or is it consistent and reproducible?
32
33 --
34 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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