Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Request: I/O request recording | From | Felipe Alfaro Solana <> | Date | Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:26:41 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 00:53, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > So it's all an attempt to optimise the boot-time I/O patterns. It was > > pretty much a waste of time, gaining only 10% or so, from memory. You > > could get just as much or more speedup from simply launching all the > > initscripts in parallel, although this did tend to break stuff. > > > > Anyway, the code's ancient but might provide some ideas: > > > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/fboot.tar.gz > > Warning. I don't know if they do have a patent for this, but MS does this > starting from XP (look inside %WINDIR%\PreFetch). It is both boot and app > based.
And tomorrow, they'll say the have patented the hamburger recipe, or the euclidean triangle, or... who knows. C'mon... The world is going crazy!
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