Speeding up live cd boot through optimizing file layout

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 02:48:44PM -0300, Hervé Fache wrote:
> In this case, the most used file should be close to the external edge!
> This might mean at the end of the list?

Optimizations like this are rarely so simple, and certainly not in this
case.  The advantage of the outer edges is in throughput, not latency.
Placing a file there, away from most other files, requires that the drive
seek a long way to get at it.  Meanwhile, caching means that files which are
accessed very frequently will be held in memory anyway, so this could even
be a net loss in performance.

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 - mdz