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Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4's sys_readahead is borked
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On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 12:30 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

Hi, Marcelo.

> Hi Robert,
> 
> This looks okay, applied.

Thanks!

> Question: Do you know any user of sys_readahead() ?

Not really - I've been playing with it.  But OpenOffice just added it to
preload some of their libraries.  It should probably be deprecated and
remove in 2.7, since posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) does this same
thing.

	Robert Love