Preloading [WAS: Re: SuSE Project SUPER]

[Les Mikesell]

Callum Lerwick wrote:
> The whole idea of preloading is crackrock. Its just hiding the problem,
> at best.
> 
> The problem is the relentless march of bloat.
> 

One person's bloat is someone else's most needed feature - and there's 
not a big problem these days with disk space to store unused options. 
The problem is that the programs, their shared libraries, and config 
files are splattered all over the disk and seeking to access them is 
much slower than any other computer operation.  There has to be some 
trick that could be used either to pre-arrange all the files used in the 
boot process together or load something early to pull in all of the 
shared libs in a certain order, or have them preloaded in a swapfile or 
something.  If you change the goal to reducing disk seeks instead of 
specifically preloading files it might be easier to accomplish a speedup.

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   Les Mikesell
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