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From: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 09:30:38 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/ext2fs: Validity checks for ext2fs_inode_scan_goto_blockgroup()
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
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On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 8:24=E2=80=AFAM Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> =
wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 04:01:18PM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> > This resolves issues seen in ureadahead, when it uses an old packfile
> > (with mismatching group indices) with a new filesystem.
>
> Say what now?  The boot time pre-caching thing Ubuntu used to have?
> https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/ureadahead.8.html

Sure. ChromeOS still uses it. Steven Rostedt even bothered to do a
talk about it recently:
https://eoss2023.sched.com/event/1LcMw/the-resurrection-of-ureadahead-and-s=
peeding-up-the-boot-process-and-preloading-applications-steven-rostedt-goog=
le

Brian