Faster Boot

[Jean-Eric Cuendet]

Hi,
In http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/FasterBoot I see:

- Profile file opens with inotify to optimize readahead file list.

I made something similar for Fedora some times ago. Fedora doesn't 
provide iNotify (and has no plans to do so...) so I gave up. Since 
Breezy will have it, I'll work on that again for Ubuntu 5.10

The idea was to have a daemon start ASAP in the boot process (just after 
/sbin/init) and record all read files. Then, a userland prog can ask it 
to dump the list of files that were read.
I implemented also a start/stop/pause mechanism and CheckPoint also. 
This way we can:
- Load the previously saved readahead list of files without it being 
blindly added to the current list.
- CheckPoint the boot process (BeforeServices, EndOfServices, 
AfterXorgStart, AfterUserSession is up, ...)

I'll try to make it working on Ubuntu now and let you know.
-jec

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