15.3. Anticipating Linux 2.4
The approach followed remains basically the same. However, if a memory region is recognized as "sequential read," read-ahead is performed while reading pages from disk. Moreover, as already mentioned at the end of Chapter 13, writing to a regular file is much simpler in Linux 2.4 because it can be easily done through page I/O operations.
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