Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:37:55 +0000 | From | Pádraig Brady <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 8/9] readahead: basic support for backwards prefetching |
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On 11/29/2011 03:35 PM, Jan Kara wrote: > Someone already mentioned this earlier and I don't think I've seen a > response: Do you have a realistic usecase for this? I don't think I've ever > seen an application reading file backwards...
tac, tail -n$large, ...
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