2009/2/28 Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>:
> axel lin wrote:
>>
>> hi,
>> I have installed moblin2 on a device equipped with a PATA harddrive.
>> Moblin2 use seradahead to improve bootup time.
>> sreadahead is optimized for solid state devices, which means
>> it has an assumption that the "seek time" is nearly zero.
>> However, this assumption is not true for PATA hard drive.
>>
>> I think if the file list in /etc/readahead.pack can be re-mapped to a
>> contiguous blocks,
>> the bootup time can be improved.
>> Is there any utility can re-map the boot files on EXT3 to a contiguous
>> blocks? ( to reduce seek time )
>> Or is there any project focus on this topic?
>
> we have a plan to deal with this; we'll be working on that in the next 2
> weeks or so.
> pure disk order isn't the right answer either; we'll have an interesting
> hybrid :)
>
hi Arjan,
That's great!! I'm looking forward your next release.
BTW, to you have a public git tree for the souce code?
Regards,
Axel
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