On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 08:25:53PM +1000, trentbuck@gmail.com wrote: > 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 But it appears to be superseded by ureadahead: 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. The last change to sreadahead was Wednesday April 28 2010: http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-os-base/sreadahead And I still fail to see the use of ureadahead instead of improving sreadahead. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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