On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 19:18, Matt Bernstein wrote:
- introduce extra threads to pre-cache the next files from install media (may be a help over the network too) while current RPM is installing
We've discussed this some -- it's a little tricky to pull off sanely with all of the shenanigans necessary to keep bad CDs from causing tracebacks (and I can point to piles of bugs in previous releases until this is finally, I think hopefully, knock on wood, right now).
I also continue to think that the caching is going to trash things more and cause the actual package installation that's occurring + whatever %post (especially ldconfig) to be that much slower. Unfortunately, that's just a gut feeling that I can't back up until I have some spare time to do some dirt simple proof of concept benchmarking.
- mount the ext3 target volumes ext2 while installing (this could still apply in days of dir_index and ACLs)
We used to do this in the 7.2 timeframe, but the time difference on an install was negligible.
Is Bugzilla the place for these ideas?
Well, bugzilla's not great for discussion, really. If you have patches... ;) Discussion is easier to have either here or on anaconda-devel-list. Or even on IRC, though that's less good from an archival stance.
Cheers,
Jeremy