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
More information about the fedora-devel-list
mailing list