Re: Boot poster challenge

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Arjan van de Ven (arjanv redhat com) said: 
> > Just do the readahead on the first boot., and then reorient your disk blocks
> > in the desktop background thereafter. :)
> 
> but in a parallel startup situation, the order in which you read stuff no
> longer is deterministic... so reordering no longer has the effect you expect
> it to have..

If you're going to do readahead, having it all contiguous is much
better than having it scattered.

Bill