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Bug 255983

Summary: sys-apps/readahead A configurable script to speed up boot process
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Gabriel Máculus <gabriel>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE    
Severity: enhancement CC: buchner.johannes, dschridde+gentoobugs
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://fedorahosted.org/readahead/
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Gabriel Máculus 2009-01-22 11:51:33 UTC
The readahead reads the contents of a list of files into memory, which causes them to be read from cache when they are actually needed. Its goal is to speed up the boot process. 

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-23 22:02:56 UTC
Not to be confused with http://code.google.com/p/sreadahead/ which got added today as sys-apps/sreadahead. ;-)
Comment 2 Patrice Clement gentoo-dev 2015-11-19 13:00:52 UTC
"readahead was obsoleted by ​systemd-readahead, which is part of systemd."