On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 10:01:54PM +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > søn, 21.11.2004 kl. 21.31 skrev Arjan van de Ven: > > > > yeah we saw that; sorting the list on disk sector shaved 2 seconds off... > > > > if we want to save more we'll have to fix the on disk layout to be less > > > > spread out. That's not going to be fun... > > > > > > Is there any way to have a "pre-cooked" swap image of all the files you need > > > so that when you boot you can swap it all in in one big contiguous read > > > instead of having to read file by file? > > > > not currently; file contents also never hits swap, it would require like > > a full vm subsystem rewrite to achieve this. It's probably a lot easier > > to either write some defrag tool that can move stuff, or to make a > > hidden automatic buffer in the fs > > > Hmm... I thougth there was no "defrag.ext3" in Linux because it wasn't > neccesary. Was i wrong? the files themselves don't get fragmented in this case.. it's just that we want to play with moving certain files to certain locations....
