[systemd-devel] [PATCH] readahead: add option to create pack in directory other than root

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 08.07.14 14:38, Chaiken, Alison (Alison_Chaiken at mentor.com) wrote:

> >I am actually all for moving the file, though. But can't we find a more
> >automatic solution for this, that doesn't
> >require manual configuration. Maybe a scheme like this could work:
> >a) readahead-reply would look for both /.readahead and
> > /var/lib/systemd/readahead. If both files exist, it picks the newer
> >one, if only one exists it picks that one.
> >b) readahead-collect would check if /var/lib/systemd is on the same
> >mount point as /. If so, it would store the file in
> > /var/lib/systemd/readahead. Otherwise it would store the file in
> >  /.readahead, as before.
> >This would move the file for most folks, while still allowing a split off
> >/var -- but I figure this wouldn't solve your specific problem?
> 
> In our case, /var/lib/ is part of / partition that is unwritable, but
> /var/opt is not.  How about a tristate option, where we implement the
> solution you suggest above, but also allow runtime specification to
> override the other two choices?

I think we should cover the usual setups with systemd upstream only,
where /var is variable, as the name suggest, and hence writable during
runtime.

It is OK to run things differently, but that would have to be a
downstream change.

That all said, we have the intention to remove systemd-readahead
entirely from the package (see announcement the other day), hence I am
not sure it's worth investing any more time in this anyway...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat