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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga programmers in deep shit...
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 13:12:51 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4ddgc3$7jk@serpens.rhein.de>
- References: <john.hendrikx.4606@grafix.xs4all.nl> <4d8qar$79q@maureen.teleport.com>
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- sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem) writes:
-
- > What can I say.. I never would have thought every single read() did a HW
- > access to the HD.
-
- With OFS/FFS it does if you read a multiple of a block length
- (well, sometimes it does more than one. you may want to seek once
- to the end of the file to cache the list blocks).
-
- With AFS it probably reads ahead a bunch of blocks and subsequent
- reads return immediately.
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
-
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