Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> The command-line tools work in terms of whole files. The syscall takes a
> file descriptor and a byte range.
> 
> readahead-watch(8): Watches the mount points given, or the root filesystem,
> for files opened during the boot sequence and closed without writing to
> them.  Orders the list by on-disk position and then writes it to the output
> file.
> 
> readahead-list(8): Loads lists from the given file and performs readahead(2)
> on each entry.
> 
> readahead(2): populates the page cache with data from a file so that
> subsequent reads from that file will not block on disk I/O.

Yeah! That's exactly what I need on Vista. :-)  Especially if it would read 
the whole file in one blow, or at least each contiguous piece. The vista 
mechanisms just don't really do the trick, I think.

Actually, with the USN, you wouldn't even need readahead-watch. Just parse 
the USN journal since the last boot and build the list from that. :-)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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