Hi!
While testing 0.13~rc1, I worked a bit on fixing the 'boot pause' issue
that is related to our readahead mechanism.
The patch looks simple enough to be a candidate for 0.13.
diff --git a/config/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/0000-readahead b/config/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/0000-readahead
index c29edbd..acc4782 100755
--- a/config/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/0000-readahead
+++ b/config/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/0000-readahead
@@ -24,22 +24,24 @@ Readahead ()
Start_readahead ()
{
- FG_FILES="$(sed -n "\:$BACKGROUND_AT:q;p" "$READAHEAD_LIST")"
- BG_FILES="$(sed -n "\:$BACKGROUND_AT:,\$p" "$READAHEAD_LIST")"
+ FG_FILES="sed -n '\:$BACKGROUND_AT:q;p' '$READAHEAD_LIST'"
+ BG_FILES="sed -n '\:$BACKGROUND_AT:,\$p' '$READAHEAD_LIST'"
FG_SIZE=$(
cd /
- echo "$FG_FILES" |
+ "$FG_FILES" |
xargs du -c 2>/dev/null |
awk '$2 ~ /^total$/ { t = t + $1 } END { print t }')
(cd /
- echo "$BG_FILES" |
+ "$BG_FILES" |
xargs stat >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || :)
(cd /
- echo "$FG_FILES" |
+ "$FG_FILES" |
xargs cat 2>/dev/null |
pv -f -s ${FG_SIZE}k >/dev/null || :)
(cd /
- echo "$BG_FILES" | xargs cat >/dev/null 2>&1 || :) &
+ start-stop-daemon \
+ --start --background --pid /var/run/background-readahead.pid --startas /bin/sh -- \
+ -c "$BG_FILES | xargs cat >/dev/null 2>&1")
# Creating state file
touch /var/lib/live/config/readahead
--
Ague
