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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hans Petter Selasky" <hselasky@c2i.net>


> On Tuesday 17 January 2012 20:54:51 Steven Hartland wrote:
>> boot time fixes (disable memtest),
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Another noticeable part is that ufsread.c in boot2 uses very small block sizes 
> to read the file system data. If that could be fixed boot times would drop too 
> !

It might but not the same order of magnitude I suspect
as this was like 30-60+ delay depending on memory size ;-)

    Regards
    Steve

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