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Startup time is a problem for many applications, and in many cases some of the problem seems to be excessive disk io. For example, Davros saw a 10x improvement in startup time with a cold cache on my sandstorm box when @mnutt minified the nodejs server.

I'm wondering if we could get a similar improvement for many other apps by converting the app directories to squashfs images, and just mounting those directly.

(More specifically than just disk IO, accessing many small files)

Would it respond differently in any way apps might access it? Would it break existing applications?

Quoting Jacob Weisz (2021-06-15 14:38:41)

Would it respond differently in any way apps might access it? Would it break existing applications?

I don't think so.