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SubjectRe: faster boots?
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dean gaudet <dean-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org> writes:
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> in some ways, the filesystem is the wrong place to do this type of
> activity -- you could approach the problem as a block layer device between
> the fs and the hardware which maintains statistics on access patterns and
> moves blocks around to optimise access time -- which lets you fix all
> sorts of seeking problems. i guess the challenge would be maintaining a
> map of logical block number to physical block number. hmm. guess that's
> kind of hard.

LVM does this already (including the statistics). I guess you could write
a pass to reorganize PEs and make sure that a bootup time the PEs
are always read completely even when they contain multiple files.

-Andi
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