[haiku-development] Re: Demo CD (was Re: Re: BButton colors?)

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:37:09 +0100 CET

> Axel Dörfler a écrit :
> > b) have a zipped
> > image that is loaded into RAM completely (in one continuous go) and
> > used from there (if there is enough RAM).
> >
> +1
> If it's easy to have a read/write image in RAM, i think it's a must.
> Especially if the cd is mostly used by people too scared to mess with
> their recent machine ( = enough RAM).
> And besides the speed argument, Haiku can't do much in read only mode
> AFAIK.
>

IIRC the Dano0 BFS image was not indexed. that might speed cd access a
bit, but probably not that much as reading shouldn't modify them, plus
we then couldn't demo queries.

François.

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