Re: [PATCH 8/9] readahead: basic support for backwards prefetching

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On 11/29/2011 03:35 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Someone already mentioned this earlier and I don't think I've seen a
> response: Do you have a realistic usecase for this? I don't think I've ever
> seen an application reading file backwards...

tac, tail -n$large, ...

cheers,
Pádraig.

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