People

• MattZimmerman

Goal

Make the Breezy live CD competitive with, or superior to, any other modern live CD platform.

Requirements

• Breezy's live CD must be feature-comparable to popular live CDs, including Knoppix and Morphix
• Boot time should also be competitive with popular live CDs

Agenda

• Infrastructure

  • [http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/project-unionfs.html unionfs] vs. device-mapper

  • [http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/ squashfs] vs. cloop

• Features
  • Automatic mounting of hard disk partitions
    • Read-only or read/write?
  • Recovery tools
    • Graphical partition table editor?
  • Persistence
    • Persistent home directory
    • Persistent filesystem overlay
• Performance
  • d-i performance
  • casper performance

  • Ubuntu boot performance (FasterBoot)

Pre-Work

• Profile the live CD boot sequence to measure the time taken for each step
  • d-i startup (time-to-first-question)
  • Pre-casper d-i activity (measured per menu entry)
  • Casper d-i activity (measured per casper.d script)
  • Standard boot sequence
• Create feature comparison matrix for Ubuntu live vs. Knoppix vs. Morphix vs. ???

Thoughts/Suggestions

• Any thoughts on combining packet writing (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Writing_on_CD-RW) with unionfs on cd-rw drives? -- MikkoVirkkilä