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-<refentry id="systemd-readahead-replay.service">
-
- <refentryinfo>
- <title>systemd-readahead-replay.service</title>
- <productname>systemd</productname>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <contrib>Developer</contrib>
- <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
- <surname>Poettering</surname>
- <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
- </refentryinfo>
-
- <refmeta>
- <refentrytitle>systemd-readahead-replay.service</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
- </refmeta>
-
- <refnamediv>
- <refname>systemd-readahead-replay.service</refname>
- <refname>systemd-readahead-collect.service</refname>
- <refname>systemd-readahead-done.service</refname>
- <refname>systemd-readahead-done.timer</refname>
- <refname>systemd-readahead</refname>
- <refpurpose>Disk read ahead logic</refpurpose>
- </refnamediv>
-
- <refsynopsisdiv>
- <para><filename>systemd-readahead-replay.service</filename></para>
- <para><filename>systemd-readahead-collect.service</filename></para>
- <para><filename>systemd-readahead-done.service</filename></para>
- <para><filename>systemd-readahead-done.timer</filename></para>
- <para><filename>/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-readahead</filename></para>
- </refsynopsisdiv>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Description</title>
-
- <para><filename>systemd-readahead-collect.service</filename>
- is a service that collects disk usage patterns at boot
- time. <filename>systemd-readahead-replay.service</filename>
- is a service that replays this access data collected
- at the subsequent boot. Since disks tend to be
- magnitudes slower than RAM this is intended to improve
- boot speeds by pre-loading early at boot all data on
- disk that is known to be read for the complete boot
- process.</para>
-
- <para><filename>systemd-readahead-done.service</filename>
- is executed a short while after boot completed and signals
- <filename>systemd-readahead-collect.service</filename>
- to end data collection. On this signal this service
- will then sort the collected disk accesses and store
- information about them disk in
- <filename>/.readahead</filename>.</para>
-
- <para>Normally, both
- <filename>systemd-readahead-collect.service</filename>
- and
- <filename>systemd-readahead-replay.service</filename>
- are activated at boot so that access patterns from the
- preceding boot are replayed and new data collected
- for the subsequent boot. However, on read-only media
- where the collected data cannot be stored it might
- be a good idea to disable
- <filename>systemd-readahead-collect.service</filename>.</para>
-
- <para>On rotating media, when replaying disk accesses
- at early boot
- <filename>systemd-readahead-replay.service</filename>
- will order read requests by their location on disk. On
- non-rotating media, they will be ordered by their
- original access timestamp. If the file system supports
- it
- <filename>systemd-readahead-collect.service</filename>
- will also defragment and rearrange files on disk to
- optimize subsequent boot times.</para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>See Also</title>
- <para>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-
-</refentry>