Boot speedup with readahead

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 11 September 2008 at 10:34, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:14 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> >>On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> 
> >>wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Here's a proof of concept plugin:
> >>>
> >>>http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/post-transaction-actions/
> >>
> >>Ok cool - with one small fix to the plugin, this simple action:
> >
> >Thank you, I've applied this to the one I uploaded above.
> >
> >So this seems to work - now the question is - should we push for this to
> >go into rpm instead?
> 
> Not instead, but to rpm *too*, yes.
> 
> Quite obviously an action that's currently done from say %post script 
> should stay at rpm level, moving some things to be only done once per 
> transaction is just an optimization really. But yum knows a lot more about 
> the surrounding world than rpm does, such as which repository a package 
> came from which is something rpm has no clue about, and thus it can do 
> things in post-transaction that rpm simply could not do.

Granted, but why would it matter where a package came from? All packages
should be treated the same, regardless of their origin. I smell some
package racism brewing up here. ;)

Regards,
R.

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