Mac OS X has a similar thing, with a pretty simple description of how they do it:
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#HotFile Adam On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 13:56 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:43:29AM +0100, Diego Calleja was heard to remark: > > > > Also, it analyzes all those io "logs" and defragments > > I dislike hearing/reading about what XP does, since its probably patented, > and I don't want that shadow hanging over Linux. > > I assume that the following simple idea, obvious to any practictioner > versed in the state of the art, is not patented or patentable: > > > linux can do decisions like "this system starts openoffice, so I'm going to > > move the > > binaries to another place of the disk where they'll load faster" or "when X > > program > > uses /lib/libfoo.so it also uses /lib/libbar.so, so I'm going to put those > > two together > > in the disk because that will avoid seeks". > > Now I like this idea. It need not have anything to do with startup, > or with any particular program or distro whatsoever. Rather, one > would have a daemon keeping track of disk i/o patterns, and constantly > trying to figure out if there is a rearrangement of the sectors on disk > that would minimize i/o seeks based on past uasge. > > The optimization routine could be some simulated annealing or > genetic algorithm or whatever whiz-bang technique someone is into. > Just keep it running in the background, low priority, constantly... > This would give you the best "time weighted" disk access performance, > although it would potentially hurt boot times, since most users spend > most of thier time doing disk access other than booting ... > > --linas > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
