On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 15:01 +0200, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: > Hi, > To speed the boot of Fedora, the taken approach is to readahead the > files needed by the daemons/tools run during boot. This approach works > well but the actual approach is to pre-load some files from a static > defined file. (This is accomplished by /etc/init.d/readahead which reads > files from /etc/readahead.files) > > There is IMHO at least 2 problems: > - When the boot process change, either by removing/adding services, the > fiels that must be readahead change. But the readahead.files don't. > - The readahead process don't read the files in the best order to > minimize the head movement on the hard disk this one is easy to fix btw; I wrote a small tool a while ago (and posted to the list) to sort the file in disk order
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