[systemd-devel] [PATCH] readahead: Add savedir option

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 14.02.13 17:47, Seunghun Pi (sh.pi at samsung.com) wrote:

> From: Byung-Soo Kim <bs1770.kim at samsung.com>
> 
> From: Byung-Soo Kim <bs1770.kim at samsung.com>
> 
> In case of root file system mounted in read-only mode,
> the collected data cannot be stored.
> Then add code to specify directory path of collected data as RW position.
> With --savedir=PATH option, collected data can be stored in the path.

I am quite open to moving this readahead file, but there's a bit of a
chicken and egg problem here: the readahead file must be available very
early at boot, so it probably should be on the root file system, but if
that's read-only, what to do?

So, can you elaborate how your setup precisely is?

There has been a long-standing item on the TODO list actually to move
the readahead file to /var/lib or so, but conditionalize that on that
/var/lib actually is on the same mount as /. The replay tool would look
for both paths basically, and the collection tool would use /var/lib if
possible in /.readahead otherwise...

Anyway, before we do something about this I'd really like to figure out
how you solve the "must be on root, but root is read-only" issue?

Lennart

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