I realize this is against the Tiny Core philosophy, but still...:
My system is slowed down significantly when errors are written to stdout. This causes the boot time to about triple, because some of the "On Boot" or "On Demand" extensions spew out a variety of otherwise insignificant warnings when they are unpacked. Also, mounting the extensions takes time that could be saved by simply having the files pre-unpacked on the persistent storage to begin with, that is, like a traditional filesystem. This would also eliminate the undesired warnings because they occur while the extensions are unpacked.
According to the Concepts document (sorry, can't create external links), it seems to be possible to perform a traditional install, but I haven't been able to find documentation for it.
I thought about installing the extensions the usual way, then moving the entire /usr/local folder to persistent storage, removing everything from onboot.lst, and finally creating a symbolic link from /usr/local to the persistent storage early in the boot sequence (if at all possible), but this doesn't seem feasible either: several folders (such as /usr/bin) include symbolic links to /tmp/tcloop, and putting /tmp/something on persistent storage expecting it to persist is a guaranteed failure.
How do I create a "traditional" install?