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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Subject: Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 -  (NUMA))
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:05:16 +0200
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On Monday 07 October 2002 20:31, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > [1] We could teach each filesystem how to read ahead across directories, or
> > we could teach the vfs how to do physical readahead.  Choose your poison.
> 
> Devices do physical readahead, and it works nicely.

Devices have a few MB of readahead cache, the kernel can have thousands of
times as much.

-- 
Daniel
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