remove readahead from default package set (was Re: should readahead allow generic paths?)

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Oct 11 21:49:03 UTC 2007


Eric Sandeen (sandeen at redhat.com) said: 
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 09:20 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > 
> >> Tossing a default list out there and hoping for the best probably won't
> >> work, at any rate.
> > 
> > So are we going to get your fixed lists into F8 ?
> > 
> 
> Well, part of the problem is that "my" fixed lists may not be everyone's
> fixed lists - I generated a custom list from *my* boot sequence.  Coming
> up with a good default list that actually speeds *everyone's* boot time
> is another issue.  If we think it's worth the 4 second or so boottime
> reduction, maybe some way to automatically generate the custom lists
> during firstboot might be an option.  But then, they will rot over time...

Given that, is there any reason to ship it on by default at this point?

Bill




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