Boot speedup with readahead

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 07:40 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:29:46 -0400
> Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 07:23 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:01:09 -0400
> > > "Colin Walters" <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> > > > This would be great and we've really needed it for a long time.
> > > > Ideally it would be structured to recognize packages based on
> > > > their content; for example, if a package installs an icon in
> > > > /usr/share/icons, we know to invoke gtk-update-icon-cache.
> > > 
> > > that makes it a question if this should be in yum or in rpm....
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm fairly confident it'll be easier to do in yum.
> > 
> 
> I absolutely do not doubt that ;)
> 
> the question is more complex than 'what is easiest' if "correctness"
> type things move into these checks rather than just optimization things.

I'll work on a simple plugin to handle this and we can see if it'll work
semi-correctly. If we decide it needs to be at the rpm-level then so be
it. :)

-sv