[indiana-discuss] [caiman-discuss] Followup: Copy-on-write compressed ramdisk

[Dave Miner]

Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    So I got a working solution now and got a successful livecd boot off
> a lofi-compressed ramdisk. This solution satifies various requirements
> even for normal harddisk boot and avoids the need for multiple different
> solutions. More details here:
> http://moinakg.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/reducing-opensolaris-ramdisk-greed/
> 

This is quite cool, Moinak.  Out of curiosity, what's the difference in:

- memory usage
- load time for the ramdisk from GRUB

I'll certainly play with this when I get some time.  Thanks!

Dave