Boot speedup with readahead

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:24 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:16 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:14 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Here's a proof of concept plugin:
> > > >
> > > > http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/post-transaction-actions/
> > > 
> > > Ok cool - with one small fix to the plugin, this simple action:
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you, I've applied this to the one I uploaded above.
> > 
> > So this seems to work - now the question is - should we push for this to
> > go into rpm instead?
> 
> Absolutely.  If it's going to exist at all, it needs to be in rpm.
> Otherwise this and the corresponding rpm changes fail the litmus test of
> "will my system be the same if I download the rpm(2) and run the
> transaction manually using rpm as it is if I use yum to install the
> rpm".  Any time you fail that litmus test, you've put the code in the
> wrong place (at least IMO).

unless we bite the bullet and stop falling back on being able to do
everything from the rpm interface.

And just move forward with doing things from the yum-cli and/or yum
modules.

Using the rpm interface for rescue/recovery functionality only.

-sv