On 03/15/2014 05:05 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
I've tweaked your text a bit to make some details clearer (I hope): readahead() initiates readahead on a file so that subsequent reads from that file will, be satisfied from the cache, and not block on disk I/O (assuming the readahead was initiated early enough and that other activity on the system did not in the meantime flush pages from the cache).
Slight grammatical error there: there's an extra comma in "file will, be". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html