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Date:      Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:03:59 +0530
From:      "Sujit Karataparambil" <sjt.kar@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vfs.ffs.rawreadahead
Message-ID:  <921ca19c0809030333u6accf415l80ec5bfb4a984ce1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080903095352.GA62541@rambler-co.ru>
References:  <20080903095352.GA62541@rambler-co.ru>

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The VFS was designed to be Object abtraction of the Berkeley Fast File System.
This has been since an terminology with journalling filesystem to have
functionality to added on request.

Thanks,
Sujit

On 9/3/08, Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> could anyone tell what does vfs.ffs.rawreadahead enable ?
> As I understand it's used in DIRECTIO code that allows read data
> directly to an userland buffer bypassing the buffer cache.
> What I can not understand where the read ahead data can be placed in ?
>
>
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> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
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