Comment 113 for bug 525154

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 07:05:51PM -0000, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On 11-07-18 02:49 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > Oh. Can you give me some specific bug numbers there?

> Not at the moment I'm afraid. The number of bugs i have in my
> subscribed list is just way to big to go searching right now, but off
> the top of my head, there is the ureadahead bug, where people have
> actually posted solutions and afaik, it's still open.

This appears to be bug #523484.

To the best of my understanding, this describes a feature that is missing
when using a separate /var (the ureadahead job will run but not do anything
useful). This is certainly a bug, but not something that we are likely to
backport to lucid even when a fix becomes available. I think you would be
hard pressed to convince any of the Ubuntu developers that it has a major
impact on the usability of Ubuntu that systems with a separate /var don't
get the boot speed enhancement from ureadahead!

Also, you say that people have posted solutions; I've reviewed the bug log
and there are no solutions to the bug there. Most of the proposals would
work *only* on systems with detached /var, so are not suitable for
inclusion in the distribution; the closest thing to a fix is Clint's
proposal to add a signal handler and an additional upstart job, but that
code hasn't actually been written.

So I'm afraid I regard this bug's current prioritization as "medium" to be
correct, sorry. Patches welcome, but I think it's unlikely that this is
going to be worked on soon otherwise.

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