[ug-bosug] RE: BOSUG Meeting this Saturday

[Moinak Ghosh]

Ashok Kumar T wrote:
> Hi Moinak,
> After attending the BOSUG meeting I have few questions.
> 1) when we boot from vmware, how is the loopback mounting of /usr done? Would it follow the same process that you described in the presentation?
>   
   Yes it is the same.
> 2) After Belenix desktop is ready, and if the user is not running any application, the cdrom goes to a relaxed state (since no disk accesses).  Let's say user gives 'firefox' command. It would take good amount of time to gain sufficient rotational velocity(RV) and the application to startup. The time taken to gain sufficient RV is not taken into consideration. Is it possible to run a background process which can periodically make disc accesses so that stepper motor does not go to relaxed state? May be  this would reduce the waiting time.
>   
   Yes this is being considered. I am working out another extension
   to HSFS, that will keep the CDROM drive active for a longer
   duration. Doing this in HSFS as opposed to a background process
   has the advantage of low overhead and the ability to detect I/O
   activity and perform keepalive disk activity only during quiet
   periods.

Regards,
Moinak.
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