On September 11, 2001 12:39 am, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > (Ugly secret: because I tend to have tons of memory, I sometimes do
> >
> > find tree1 tree2 -type f | xargs cat > /dev/null
>
> This suggests we may want to do agressive readahead on the
> inode blocks.
While that is most probably true, that wasn't his point. He preloaded the
page cache.
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