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ureadahead package

  1. Bug #523484
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 523484

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Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx) wrote : Re: [Bug 523484] Re: ureadahead requires /var on root filesystem

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 01:53 +0000, narcelio wrote:
> I´ve just upgraded my Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 and it can't boot anymore.

Which you must be assuming is a problem with ureadahead, yes, or you
would not be posting to this bug.

More than likely your bug is not with ureadahead but one of the many
other bugs upstart/mountall and putting /var on a separate filesystem.

Indeed, it seems very likely that a responsible system deployment design
concept such as putting a filesystem that can grow without bounds on
it's own device (so as not to seize the whole system when it does fill
up) is outside the normal scope of what Ubuntu expects users to do and
therefore completely untested within Ubuntu's QA process.

Anyway, I'd suggest you start searching launchpad for the other bugs
with regard to Ubuntu not booting as I suspect ureadahead is not really
the problem.