Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ken Hirsch" <> | Subject | Re: fadvise syscall? | Date | Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:35:35 -0500 |
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Anton Altaparmakov writes > Posix or not I still don't see why one would want that. You know what you > are going to be using a file for at open time and you are not going to be > changing your mind later. If you can show me a single _real_world_ example > where one would genuinely want to change from one access pattern to another > without closing/reopening a particular file I would agree that fadvise is a > good idea but otherwise I think open(2) is the superior approach. >
Sure, a database manager can change the access pattern on every query. If there's an index and not too many records are expected to match, it will use a random pattern, otherwise it will use sequential access.
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