faster boots?
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Quoted 8 lines · dean gaudet
in some ways, the filesystem is the wrong place to do this type of activity -- you could approach the problem as a block layer device between the fs and the hardware which maintains statistics on access patterns and moves blocks around to optimise access time -- which lets you fix all sorts of seeking problems. i guess the challenge would be maintaining a map of logical block number to physical block number. hmm. guess that's kind of hard.
LVM does this already (including the statistics). I guess you could write a pass to reorganize PEs and make sure that a bootup time the PEs are always read completely even when they contain multiple files.
-Andi