Re: POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE and O_STREAMING behavior in 2.6.7

[David Rolenc]

David Greaves wrote:

> 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?

The system will not be using nfs at all.

> David
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