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Bug#605636: Please enable CONFIG_FANOTIFY in 2.6.37(-rcX)



On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 01:29 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Severity: wishlist
> User: systemd@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: readahead
> 
> Hi,
> 
> please consider enabling fanotify in the upcoming 2.6.37(-rcX) packages.
> 
> Systemd has a readahead implementation based on fanotify which we would
> like to enable.

There seem to be alternate ways of doing readahead, so I'm not yet
convinced it's worth the cost.  (It appears to add about 4-5K code and
static data, which is nothing on a PC but a bit more significant on an
ARM system with a fixed-size flash partition for the kernel image.)

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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