On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 12:35:49AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Bah. > > Just do the readahead on the first boot., and then reorient your disk blocks > in the desktop background thereafter. :) but in a parallel startup situation, the order in which you read stuff no longer is deterministic... so reordering no longer has the effect you expect it to have..