Yet more "preloading"

[Andrew Morton]

Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi at kde.org> wrote:
>
> i'm not sure i like the "statistical auto-configuration" for kdm you
>  described.
>  however, this gave me an Absolutely Brilliant Idea (TM): this whole
>  problem could/should be solved in a generic way with kernel support: the
>  kernel only needs to create a file access log of the boot process. on
>  subsequent boots, preloading would be initiated based on this data. of
>  course things become fun at the point the boot process branches
>  (different sessions are choosen); this could be either auto-detected
>  with "life analysis" of the current boot process, or by hinting from
>  user space (hello ?dm) - the latter sounds less like a hack, but
>  requires support in many programs.
>  does this sound like a plan? andrew?

I wrote a thingy to do that once.  It is described in the discussion at
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2157, which is worth a read.