Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: faster boots? | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 05 Apr 2002 10:41:39 +0200 |
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dean gaudet <dean-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org> writes: > > 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.
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