Re: READAHEAD

[Andrew Morton]

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Please, just use time, cat, dd, etc.
> 
>  	mount /dev/xxx /mnt/yyy
>  	dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/yyy/x bs=1M count=1024
>  	umount /dev/xxx
>  	mount /dev/xxx /mnt/yyy
>  	time cat /mnt/yyy/x > /dev/null

And you can do the same against /dev/hdaN if you have a scratch
partition; that would be interesting.
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