[systemd-devel] Improve boot-time of systemd-based device, revisited

[Daniel Mack]

On 06/19/2015 09:34 AM, Chaiken, Alison wrote:
> ceel, are you aware that readahead is deprecated in systemd and has not 
> been included since about release 216?   Some of us in automotive are 
> still working on it.   I have some patches here
> 
> https://github.com/chaiken/systemd-hacks/tree/packfilelist
> 
> against 215 that add various features.   We may soon be forward-porting 
> these, along with readahead itself, to the latest version.

FWIW, an approach that will probably save you a lot of rebasing work in
the future would be to rip out the readahead bits from that tree and put
it into a repository of it own. It's a standalone tool that just
happened to live in the systemd repo in the past. Some of the helper
functions would need to be copied over as well, but that should be
manageable.

That way, you can even accept patches from other people and roll your
own releases etc.


HTH,
Daniel