>> - 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
OK, fine, but I can't find it. Could you repost it?
And would you be interested in a kernel module that tracks the read files during boot? Or do you find that useless? And you as a great kernel hacker :-) , what would you use? LSM? KProbes? Else?
Thanks. -jec