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From: syd@dsinc.DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Strange HP/UX 7.0 read ahead
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.022515.24335@DSI.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 91 02:25:15 GMT
Sender: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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While running some tests today on various systems, I came
across HP/UX 7.03 (I think).  All BSD type file systems do block
read ahead, where you read block n and they pre-read blocks n+1 and n+2.

Not HP/UX, it reads n+1 and n+3, why?
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