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

In 2.4 also?