Another readahead issue

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Tue Oct 9 00:57:59 UTC 2007


Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> Not sure if I should have started a new thread, but...
> 
> If you *are* going to keep or eventually revive readahead, it would be
> nice to deal with the fact that all the firefox entries in default.later
> are /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3/, but the current firefox is
> firefox-2.0.0.5.  
> 
> That is, version-dependent listings in readahead don't get updated when
> the target package version changes.  Firefox is the most likely to get
> out of sync, but there do seem to be some other version-dependent
> listings.
> 

I think the readahead list *really* needs to be self-healing somehow (if
it can be demonstrated that it actually does optimize boot performance
when properly set up.)

-Eric




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