Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > 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.. If you're going to do readahead, having it all contiguous is much better than having it scattered. Bill