e4rat-preload-lite

More efficient e4rat file preloader.

Instructions

1. Change LIST and INIT defines to your file list and init paths respectively.

• Compile file with clang -O3 e4rat-preload-lite.c -o e4rat-preload-lite or gcc -O3 -std=c99 e4rat-preload-lite.c -o e4rat-preload-lite.
• Strip binary: strip -s ./e4rat-preload-lite.
• Copy init file to /sbin/e4rat-preload-lite: cp ./e4rat-preload-lite /sbin/.
• Add init=/sbin/e4rat-preload-lite to kernel line in your bootloader configuration.

Changelog

0.2

• Load 33% of list but not more than 1000 files before running system process.
• Load only 100 files per iteration.

This version saves 2 more seconds until fully functional gnome-shell comparing to 0.1.

Original

Original version of this utility was written by John Lindgren. You can find it here.