@qole
Maybe you could change the qmount-script to mount debian with nobh and nodiratime in addition to notime to gain a little bit more performance.

hstende: can you confirm any performance improvement with those options? If you can, I'm willing to add them and upload (yet another) new version of Easy Chroot...

@qole
I tried to run som test and it was a little bit faster with the extra options. I runned debian on sdhc-card as a partition and not as a image. I did the test on /root so I was sure I didn't use the bind-mounted partitions.
Here are some results:

with noatime:
[root@debian: ~]time for x in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do cp test test$i; rm test$i; done;done

real 0m20.376s
user 0m0.477s
sys 0m18.477s
[root@debian: ~]time for x in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do cp test test$i; rm test$i; done;done

real 0m20.367s
user 0m0.469s
sys 0m18.422s
[root@debian: ~]time for x in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do cp test test$i; rm test$i; done;done

real 0m20.099s
user 0m0.602s
sys 0m18.438s


with noatime,nobh,nodiratime
[root@debian: ~]time for x in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do cp test test$i; rm test$i; done;done

real 0m19.319s
user 0m0.523s
sys 0m18.273s
[root@debian: ~]time for x in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do cp test test$i; rm test$i; done;done

real 0m19.968s
user 0m0.563s
sys 0m18.055s
[root@debian: ~]time for x in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do cp test test$i; rm test$i; done;done

real 0m18.820s
user 0m0.555s
sys 0m17.961s

I found another possibility to run application in easy debian.
I installed ssh in easy debian and told it to listen to port 23.
I then from n900 console after starting debbie and starting ssh-deamon.
I ran from debbie
ssh-keygen
cp .ssh/id_rsa.pub ./ssh/autorized_keys
chmod 600 ./ssh/authorized_keys
exit from debbie

From meamo-console I then ran:
ssh -X localhost -p 23 soffice

This gave a better look to openoffice.
But if the application uses a lot of video, this would be a slow option....

I think the easy debian package needs to "depends: dmsetup" - shall I file a bug report?

downloaded new chroot update that showed up today, now there is no close debian. is it not needed anymore?

phedders: Perhaps I could add a "suggests" line in the "easy chroot" package for "dmsetup", "libdevmapper1.02.1" and "kernel-module-dmloop", (I wish dmsetup depended on the other two!) but people have done tests and there doesn't seem to be an actual need for the dm-loop packages. But if you install them, my scripts will use them. The problem is that, unlike Debian, Maemo has no concept of "suggests".

dscobsct: I moved the "Close Debian" icon to Easy Debian, so if you update both packages, the (shiny new) icon should be in your menu again.

hstende: How does running openoffice through ssh -X make it look "better"? Is it because it uses the standard theme rather than the dark theme?

thanks quole, by the way bloody nice job man, ive been diving in to your work the last few days respect for all your effort

After opening Debian lxde I can't see the menu. There are only 3 icons on the left panel and My documents folder. Normally there was a menu icon in the upper left corner from which I could choose to run openoffice or gimp or something else.

fw190: have you installed the new image? If not, grab it with the fancy new installer.