On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It would be much more valuable if those 3.5 seconds were available to > devices which really really care about bootup times, but very few of > those devices use rotating disks nowadays, I expect? And don't rotating disk modules read and buffer whole tracks, doing their own readahead, anymore, anyway? Isn't that part of what "on-disk cache" does? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
