linux-kernel - Re: What is in ubifs-2.6.git

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Message-Id: <1222761383.8051.5.camel@sauron>
Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:56:23 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
To:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@...ia.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What is in ubifs-2.6.git


On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 12:18 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> addresses. For example, if user-space asks to read page zero of a
> file, and page 0-4 are in consecutive flash addressed, UBIFS reads
> pages 0-4 and populates them to the Page Cache.

Actually this example is a little wrong, because UBIFS starts
doing bulk-read only if few pages were read sequentially before.
So, user would have to read pages 0-3 sequentially, then UBIFS
would start doing bulk-read for this inode.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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