Boot speedup with readahead

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Mon Sep 8 21:11:54 UTC 2008


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 15:28 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
>> We still need to trigger pre-linking after yum transactions rather than
>> by a cron job...
> 
> So that we can have an "Optimizing harddrive" phase during updates like
> OSX does?  that'd be awesome...

I guess you can wait now, or wait later.

But yeah I agree with osx it's:

boots up fast, awesome!
background download of updates, awesome!
updates install quickly (usually) - awesome!
updates force reboot - not awesome!
reboot takes AGES that first time - not aweseome!

-Eric




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