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