Re: [PATCH 23/32] readahead: seeking reads method

[Ingo Oeser]

Hello, 

On Saturday, 27. May 2006 17:49, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Readahead policy on read after seeking.
> 
> It tries to detect sequences like:
> 	seek(), 5*read(); seek(), 6*read(); seek(), 4*read(); ...

This is basically "fast forward" and "fast backward" of media players.
Did you try some tests with that? Hard disk recording people will love you.

Just watch a nice movies while testing this and you can enjoy both: 
Your work succeeding and jumping around in a good movie :-)


Regards

Ingo Oeser
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