On 01/08/12 09:30, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
In the case of your MP3 collection... Probably the only thing you can do is to write a script which will simply go read all the files you predict will be read soon. The key here is the prediction - There's no way ZFS or solaris, or any other OS in the present day is going to intelligently predict which files you'll be requesting soon.
The other prediction is whether the blocks will be reused. If the blocks of a streaming read are only used once, then it may be wasteful for a file system to allow these blocks to placed in the cache. If a file system purposely chooses to not cache streaming reads, manually scheduling a "pre-read" of particular files may simply cause the file to be read from disk twice: on the manual pre-read and when it is read again by the actual application. I believe Joerg Moellenkamp published a discussion several years ago on how L1ARC attempt to deal with the pollution of the cache by large streaming reads, but I don't have a bookmark handy (nor the knowledge of whether the behavior is still accurate). _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
