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It's a tool that allowed to put all the files read during boot time in a sequential order in the hdd, minimizing the read time, so the device booted much faster.
It's this one: https://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
Note: I searched using duckduckgo and found it normally
DuckDuckGo is my default engine. It assumed I meant "extract" and gave me a dictionary definition along with links to download WinZip and WinRAR. When I told it I actually meant what I typed, it put it in quotes and returned no results.
It was not obvious that I should have omitted the X and the T.
What I apparently didn't do was try Google afterwards, and I'm a little disturbed that I didn't. Adding !g to the search in DDG is usually the first thing I do when it can't find anything, but my browser history suggests I didn't do that.
Only now after reading your comment that I realized it's e4rat, and not ext4rat lol. I could swear I saw it written as ext4rat somewhere some years ago!
But anyway, I used ddg too, and it gave me that link among the first results, which is weird. I thought their search was reproducible, but turns out it's not, just like google...
sometimes I navigate to a result in the same tab, but just before clicking I notice another result that could also be relevant. then I navigate back, and now the results are somewhat different, usually the result I was looking at being omitted, and with a different order too. after that reloading it always gives the same results.