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SubjectRe: virtual disk system (swap enhancement idea too)
Hi!

> <OFFTOPIC>As an aside, it would be neat if the kernel would pre-write
> pages to disk so that when it came time to swap to disk, there would
> already be some pages written. Of course this should only happen when
> there isn't alot of disk accesses going on.</OFFTOPIC>

Power saving people will not like this idea, as it causes disk traffic
even if one is not needed.

Pavel

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I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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