Boot poster challenge

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 15 18:46:25 UTC 2004


Arjan van de Ven (arjanv at 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




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