Naheem Zaffar wrote:
I think Fedora did use some sort of preloading (well, atleast
Readahead), but it was decided that there was no tangible benefit from
it in the way it was being done.
Well, I looked into the readahead util for boot time, and it seemed to
hurt more than help. But ongoing preload that learns & adjusts to usage
patterns could help I'm sure, if done right
-Eric (while waiting for the one long boot of OS X 10.5 after a system
update, as it updates its caches for the *next* fast boot...)