[systemd-devel] [PATCH] readahead: read /usr files last for rotational media, skip /var

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 15:25, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu.org> wrote:
> On 09/30/2011 03:08 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:

>> /usr will not be a good rule, and hard coding such things in the code,
>> we should should probably avoid in general.

> Even if it will not be a good rule, right now it is at least decent, and
> right now systemd-readahead is a pretty bad readahead for rotational media
> (still the majority).

Thats true, and it's nice that you found a really simple way to make
that much of a difference.

> Did you see the numbers I gave?

Sure. I just think that this is not what we really want in the end.
Its more a nice proof that things can/should be more efficient here
than they are now.

Kay