Re: [PATCH] fcache: a remapping boot cache

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Tue, May 30 2006, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> On 5/16/06, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> >On Mon, May 15 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 15 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> > o Trying it on my notebook brought the time from the kernel starts
> >> >   loading to kde has fully auto-logged in down from 50 seconds to 38
> >> >   seconds. The primed boot took 61 seconds. The notebook is about 4
> >> >   months old and the file system is very fresh, so better results 
> >should
> >> >   be seen on more fragmented installs.
> >>
> [...]
> >git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block.git fcache
> 
> Just cloned.
> 
> Any progress on this project Jens?
> 
> I'll try to apply the patch to mainline and post here some numbers.

Well it's a git repo, get it and see :-)
But yes, it's had various fixes and optimizations, it should apply to
latest Linus kernel. There's also a consistency checker here:

git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/fcache.git

that can check both fcache data and metadata.

-- 
Jens Axboe