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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:13:54 +0100
From: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: Request: I/O request recording
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> You could certainly do that.  Given disk block #N you need to search all
> files on the disk asking "who owns this block".  The FIBMAP ioctl can be
> used on most filesystems (ext2, ext3, others..) to find out which blocks a
> file is using.   See bmap.c in
> 
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz
> 
> Unfortunately you cannot determine a directory's blocks in this way. 
> Ext3's directories live in the /dev/hda1 pagecache anyway.  ext2's
> directories each have their own pagecache.

OK, I've written something that does this (but only correctly for ext3). 
I've put it here:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsamwel/bootup_prefetch.tar.gz

I haven't had the opportunity to do good measurements, so I don't really 
know if it even increases performance. If anyone feels like benchmarking 
this, I'd be very happy to hear from you. I don't really expect 
performance increases, as the bootup scripts seem to have enough 
processing to do to keep the system busy even without disk I/O. I wonder 
if it might make a difference on a faster processor though, my system's 
kind of sluggish by today's standards.

-- Bart
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