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diggan on May 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: 3x faster linux boot with e4rat

No, it moves the files used in the startup to a closer sector and won't speed up your booting time if you're using SSD discs.

rbanffy on May 7, 2012 [–]

By placing the files together in the memory you may get some extra performance, but it depends on how your SSD is internally organized - you may have some locality effects if the drive pre-fetches more than the block you called for into a cache faster than the flash memory.

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