On: Distri: 20x faster initramfs (initrd) from scratch

[michaelmrose]

With full disk encryption you can turn on a system and have a usable light weight desktop up in 20 seconds.

Alternatively you can suspend and resume in most cases and have it in 2.

[swiley → michaelmrose]

If your DE is light enough just put it and its dependancies in the initramfs with your home folder (and /etc /var?) encrypted.

I used to do this, although without the encryption.

[hinkley → michaelmrose]

So it's less than 3% for WDE. The other thing I wasn't clear on is if this initramfs speeds up boot of 'normal' Linux machines, sans encryption.