Can we make readahead more robust to package updates?

Arjan van de Ven arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Mon Nov 13 08:06:20 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 13:57 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Okay its come to my attention that the readahead configs have a
> difficult time being kept in sync as package updates roll out. For fc6
> right now for example readahead is out of sync with firefox libraries.
> 
> Can we update readahead's implementation so we can get per package
> control of the default configs?  Is a readahead.d/ structure
> appropriate here?
maybe.
the downside is that you now add extra costs (seeks :) which.. well
readahead was trying to avoid. So if this is going to get used massively
it's less certain things will gain as much as before...




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