Re: POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE and O_STREAMING behavior in 2.6.7

[David Greaves]

David Rolenc wrote:

> I am trying to get O_STREAMING (Robert Love patch for 2.4) behavior in 
> 2.6 and just a glance at fadvise.c suggests that POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE is 
> not implemented any differently than POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED. Am I missing 
> something?  I want to read data from disk with readahead and drop the 
> data from the page cache as soon as I am done with it. Do I have to 
> call fadvise with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED after every read?

And will this work over nfs?

David
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