On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: > Then, I generally believe better than trying to be smart when reading > things we should much rather try to place things properly on disk. We > already defrag things based on the read order for btrfs, we should do > the same for ext4. The API for that unfortunately awful, but e4rat has > shown that this does work. Basically, this is what you do:
Isn't the problem that reads by blkid and friends are not being caught by readahead-collect, and hence end up blocking until readahead-replay has finished? In that case reordering won't help (I think). -t _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel