Can we make readahead more robust to package updates?

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 11/14/2006 07:15 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 22:23 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Arjan van de Ven (arjan at fenrus.demon.nl) said: 
>>> I really like this idea; it's a simple "cat" and it can be done at a
>>> time where latency doesn't matter... (even in cron.daily)
>>>
>>> Oh... this opens more options. This also allows the "sort by
>>> blocknumber" to be done at this point and taken out of the critical
>>> latency part......
>>>
>>> great idea!
>> Of course, that then makes shutdown take twice as long.
> 
> if you do it at shutdown, which is again a latency path :)
> cron.daily/weekly is less so ;)

+1 for cron
-1 for shutdown -> what about boxens, which are shutdown only on kernel 
updates? (like mine)

Regards,
Dariusz


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