Boot speedup with readahead
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Sep 15 20:32:43 UTC 2008
Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 14:04 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 13:02 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>> - Kristian Høgsberg built razor which can solve deps in fraction of a second
>>> where yum simply takes way too long. Is anyone in the RPM camp impressed?
>>> No. They just don't think it's possible to do with RPM.
>>
>> Kristian built something which solves some dependencies. Mostly he wrote
>> a mmap'd repometadata format.
>
> Look, depsolving isn't hard and razor is on par with yum as far as
> correctness goes and in a whole different class as far as performance
> goes.
Is it in a usable state for day to day work or atleast for testing? I
would like to see it packaged and more easily consumable in that case
atleast for rawhide.
Rahul
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