Ubuntu already improved their boot time

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Sun Oct 23 17:27:51 UTC 2005


[a-aa]
> Mine's in my svn tree, rough at best
> https://hollowtube.mine.nu/svn/readaheadDaemon/trunk/
> one daemon that uses inotify to scan for file access, and one that
> does the actual readahead.

[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> Any plans for getting it into debian?  Does it speed up the boot

[Armin Berres]
> I'd like to package it if it is ready (and it has a name ;) ).
> Will talk to you (a-aa) in #initng about it...

Any progress with this?  Debian still lack a good readahead system.

On the other hand, the new sysvinit support parallel booting and
init.d dependency information are slowing making its way into the
init.d scripts in LSB format, so we are making progress. :)




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