Speedying up the boot for Fedora

Jean-Eric Cuendet jec at rptec.ch
Thu Apr 21 16:07:05 UTC 2005


 >> - 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




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