On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:28:49PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > another interesting test might be the following: > disable readahead (both services), store the attached file as /tmp/files > and put the following near the top of /etc/rc.sysinit: > /usr/sbin/readahead `/bin/cat /tmp/files` Hey! Don't waste cycles like that! If you are trying to squeeze things as much as possible, and since rc.sysinit already requires bash anyway, you want this instead: /usr/sbin/readahead $(< /tmp/files) (assuming that the file list will always exist and be readable) Now let me go back to rewriting my init scripts into native code... -- Rudi
