On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> I've been fiddling with some changes that implement loaning pages for read()
> of regular files for quite a while, and I figure it's time to share them.

Is this likely to help rsync's horrible disk-hogging
performance?  See the map_file() and map_ptr() functions in
pkgsrc/net/rsync/work/rsync-2.6.3/fileio.c, where they give
some excuse for using read rather than mmap.

--apb (Alan Barrett)