The interesting thing about Larry's numbers is that they are not on-disk
numbers.
> - a modest read-ahead (hundreds of kBytes) of the inode blocks will
> halve the number of seeks, and will make the remaining seeks
> generally less expensive (no need to seek between two different
> areas on the disc)
Only if the directory contents are grouped together on the disk.
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