openSUSE/kiwi — pull request #330 by magist3r (2014-03-15 23:48:31+00:00)
Title: Dramatically reduce creation time of persistent storage. 

Also disable journal and use ext4 instead of ext3 to enable unibit_bg option.
Loading iso image without these options takes up to 7 minutes (!!!) from my 32Gb USB flash.
With these options it takes about few seconds.