Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750852AbWAYR62 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:58:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751090AbWAYR62 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:58:28 -0500 Received: from seanodes.co.fr.clara.net ([212.43.220.11]:37795 "EHLO seanodes.co.fr.clara.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750852AbWAYR61 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:58:27 -0500 Message-ID: <43D7BC3B.8000701@enix.org> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:58:19 +0100 From: Thomas Petazzoni User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-7.2.20060mdk (X11/20050322) X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sjackman@gmail.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Replaying a list of blocks into the cache (BootCache) References: <5yWak-99-39@gated-at.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: <5yWak-99-39@gated-at.bofh.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 840 Lines: 27 Hi, [ Sorry, I'm reading linux-kernel through the newsgroup, so my reply may not contain the correct references, and may break the threading. ] Shaun Jackman a ?crit : > This made me think of the OS X BootCache feature, which saves the list > of disk blocks accessed during the boot sequence and replays that > list on the next boot. Is there anything like this in Linux? This has been discussed 2 years ago on KernelTrap: http://kerneltrap.org/node/2157 I don't know if there have been further developments in this area. Sincerly, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, thomas.petazzoni@enix.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/