Bug#502121: [wnpp]
Twelve months ago, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> On 2009-04-21 at 22:21:17 +0200, Resul Cetin <Resul-Cetin@gmx.net> wrote:
>> New website: http://code.google.com/p/sreadahead/
>> A patch for the current kernel is needed to enable open tracing.
>
> I'll wait with the packaging until the patch has made it upstream
> and is available in the Debian kernel.
AFAICT the patch is not applied to Linus' git tree yet. If applying
it is/was under discussion, could you link to the mailing list thread?
AFAICT it isn't applied to Debian's linux-source-2.6.33 version
2.6.33-1~experimental.4, either.
It looks like Ubuntu adopted it, and it was useful for SSDs:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-March/027726.html
But it appears to be superseded by ureadahead:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/sreadahead
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/ureadahead
https://launchpad.net/ureadahead
...which is an Ubuntu fork of sreadahead? The last change to
sreadahead was Apr 2009, the ureadahead changes range from Oct 2009 to
Nov 2009. Both require a kernel patch.
FWIW, Fedora's readahead is being actively modified as at Mar 2010
(last month).
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