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SubjectRe: [patch] 2.4's sys_readahead is borked
FromArjan van de Ven <>
DateSat, 07 Feb 2004 04:14:51 -0500
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 09:30, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> 
> Question: Do you know any user of sys_readahead() ?

Development versions of Fedora will sys_readahead a bunch of stuff
during system boot to avoid disk IO (and seeks) later on. The plan is to
expand this further from the current code (eg readahead stuff while dhcp
is trying to get an address and the disk is idle, etc etc).


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