[systemd-devel] [HEADS-UP] Intent to remove readahead from systemd

[Samuli Suominen]

On 26/09/14 09:58, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Pacho Ramos <pacho at gentoo.org> wrote:
>> El jue, 25-09-2014 a las 16:44 +0200, Tom Gundersen escribió:
>>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Lennart Poettering
>>> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
>>>> So, I think with the release after the upcoming one we should just
>>>> remove it from the systemd package and just throw it on the pile of
>>>> historic cruft. So, yeah, here's the advance warning that this will be
>>>> happening...
>>>>
>>>> (Well, unless somebody from the community who cares and wants to invest
>>>> the necessary time in it steps up and gives it the love it really
>>>> needs. If nobody does until that release, I will delete the component
>>>> from systemd).
>>> No one objected to this, so I pushed the patch deleting it. If anyone
>>> wants to resurrect this in an external repo, it should be simple
>>> enough to extract it from git.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Tom
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>> Is there any other readahead implementation around that we could migrate
>> to? Well, not sure many laptops with SSD are sold in your area but, at
>> least in mine, most people still have (and buy) setups with rotational
>> hard drives that have a clear gain when running readahead (well, I can
>> see it every time I reboot and login on gnome-shell if I don't use
>> readahead)
> I think the best bet would be someone who understands/knows/uses this
> stuff to resurrect systemd-readahead in a third-party repo and
> maintain it there. AFAIK, it was the best of the available options.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom

This sounds like the best option to me too, anyone can pick up the
systemd-readahead
code and create a e.g. github repository for it

+1

- Samuli