read() system call will probably not do any
read-ahead. but libc code (fread() for eg.) will do
readahead  as well as some other buffering.
pl. correct me if Im wrong.
thanks
-kamal

--- Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> wrote:
> 
> Can someone give me a brief explanation, with
> pointers to the
> appropriate source files, of how readahead works in
> NetBSD? A few
> months ago I was sure I'd found some code that
> triggered 64K reads
> if it detected sequential file reads, but I can't
> seem to find it
> any more.
> 
> cjs
> -- 
> Curt Sampson  <cjs@cynic.net>   +81 90 7737 2974  
> http://www.netbsd.org
>     Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all
> light.  --XTC
> 


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