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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:01:42 -0300
From: John Lenton <john@grulic.org.ar>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>
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Subject: Re: Is there a way to turn file caching off ?
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:21:14AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> A program may know its own access pattern, but it don't usually know
> future access patterns.  Well, backing up the entire fs could benefit
> from a something like this, you probably won't need the backup again
> soon.  But this is hard to know in many other cases.

tar --please-leave-this-in-cache-pretty-please ?

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