Hi,
Bruce Momjian:
> As I remember, Linux turns off file system prefetch if a seek is done.
Correct (still so for Linux 2.4).
> BSD file systems turn off prefetch only if prefetched blocks remain
> unused.
"Unused" is decided when?
Do any, all, or some percentage of prefetched blocks need to be unused?
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