Re: [PATCH 23/32] readahead: seeking reads method

Ingo Oeser
2006-05-27T22:08:21Z

Hello,

On Saturday, 27. May 2006 17:49, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Readahead policy on read after seeking.
>
> It tries to detect sequences like:
> seek(), 5*read(); seek(), 6*read(); seek(), 4*read(); ...

This is basically "fast forward" and "fast backward" of media players.
Did you try some tests with that? Hard disk recording people will love you.

Just watch a nice movies while testing this and you can enjoy both:
Your work succeeding and jumping around in a good movie :-)

Regards

Ingo Oeser